VEHICLE DRIVING ASSISTANCE APPARATUS

A vehicle driving assistance apparatus executes a collision avoidance control to avoid a collision of an own vehicle with an object ahead of the own vehicle by forcibly braking and stopping the own vehicle before the object when a collision condition that the own vehicle collides with the object, becomes satisfied. The vehicle driving assistance apparatus acquires information on a situation behind the own vehicle as rearward detection information when the own vehicle tows a trailer, acquires an angle between a moving vector of the own vehicle and a moving vector of the trailer as a towing angle. and keep the collision avoidance control unexecuted even when the collision condition becomes satisfied when a forbiddance condition that the towing angle is equal to or greater than a predetermined towing angle, is satisfied.