Method and device for reducing the medical consequences of unavoidable accidents in cross traffic

The method involves determining a lateral incidence position on a motor vehicle during unbraked driving of another motor vehicle (1), and executing driving intervention into the operation of the latter motor vehicle based on the determined lateral incidence position on the former motor vehicle. The incidence position is determined by using information about transverse movement of the former motor vehicle, and braking intervention of a driver of the latter motor vehicle is inhibited when an incidence area lies in a front area of the former motor vehicle. Independent claims are also included for the following: (1) a device for operating a motor vehicle (2) a motor vehicle (3) a computer program product with program code for executing a method for operating a motor vehicle.