VEHICLE CONTROL APPARATUS

A vehicle control apparatus determines whether or not a confirmed abnormal state in which it can be confirmed that a driver of a vehicle has fallen into an abnormal state where he/she is unable to drive the vehicle is occurring. When it is determined that the confirmed abnormal state is occurring, the apparatus decelerates the vehicle at a normal deceleration DGnor. However, when it is predicated that a control limit of a lane keeping control will come before the vehicle stops in the case where the vehicle is decelerated at the normal deceleration DGnor from when the confirmed abnormal state is determined to be occurring, the apparatus decelerates the vehicle at a maximum deceleration DGmax greater than the normal deceleration.