VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE

The present invention provides a vehicle control device capable of enhancing the ability of reducing or avoiding collision damage in a vehicle where a behavior of the vehicle when a braking operation is performed is largely influenced corresponding to a state of load (a loaded state), for example. The vehicle control device includes: a travelability determination unit configured to determine whether or not a vehicle is travelable in an area disposed ahead of the vehicle on left and right sides of the vehicle; a deflection estimation unit configured to estimate deflection of the vehicle due to generation of a brake force applied to the vehicle ; and a braking control unit configured to calculate deceleration and deceleration start timing based on a distance between the vehicle and an obstacle ahead of the vehicle and a relative speed of the vehicle to the obstacle, and configured to change at least one of the deceleration and the deceleration start timing based on a travelability determination result acquired from the travelability determination unit and a deflection estimation result acquired from the deflection estimation unit