VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE, VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD, AND VEHICLE CONTROL PROGRAM

[Problem] To more reliably reduce a risk of collision when an abnormality of a driver is detected. [Solution] A vehicle control device 1, which executes: stop control that automatically decelerates and then stops a vehicle 10 when an abnormality of a driver of the vehicle 10 is detected; and deceleration control that automatically decelerates the vehicle 10 when the vehicle 10 is determined to have a risk of collision, includes a setting unit 1B and a determination unit 1C. The setting unit 1B sets, when the abnormality of the driver is detected, an operation mode of the deceleration control to a special mode from a normal mode provided for cases in which the abnormality of the driver is undetected. The determination unit 1C expands a range for identifying the object around the vehicle 10 as the target candidate of the collision in the special mode as compared with the range in the normal mode, and determines whether there is the risk of the collision with the identified target candidate.