A vehicle travel control apparatus applied to a vehicle, comprising: anomaly monitoring means for determining, through monitoring, whether or not a driver of the vehicle is in an anomalous state in which the driver has lost his or her ability to drive the vehicle; and deceleration means (10, 30, 31, 40, 41) for automatically stopping the vehicle by decelerating the vehicle after a final anomaly determined time which is a point in time when the anomaly monitoring means finally determines that the driver is in the anomalous state, wherein the deceleration means (10, 30, 31, 40, 41) is configured to determine whether or not the vehicle is present in a deceleration prohibited section determined on the basis of places where automatically stopping the vehicle is inappropriate from the viewpoint of an ordinance, through use of at least either of division line information regarding division lines on left and right sides of a travel path of the vehicle and road information regarding the travel path of the vehicle, the division line information being recognized from road image data from an image capturing apparatus when the vehicle includes the image capturing apparatus, the road information being obtained from a navigation apparatus (100, 101, 102) when the vehicle includes the navigation apparatus (100, 101, 102); and the deceleration means (10, 30, 31, 40, 41) is configured to not decelerate the vehicle in the case where the deceleration means (10, 30, 31, 40, 41) determines that the vehicle is present in the deceleration prohibited section after the final anomaly determination time, characterized in that the deceleration means (10, 30, 31, 40, 41) is configured to decelerate the vehicle from a provisional anomaly determined time only when a speed of the vehicle is larger than a predetermined speed in a period between the provisionally anomaly determined time and the final anomaly determined time, wherein the provisional anomaly determined time is a point in time which is before the final anomaly determined time and at which the monitoring means determines that the driver is highly likely to be in the anomalous state; and the deceleration means (10, 30, 31, 40, 41) is configured to not decelerate the vehicle in the period between the provisional anomaly determined time and the final anomaly determined time in the case where the deceleration means (10, 30, 31, 40, 41) determines that the vehicle is present in the deceleration prohibited section in the period between the provisional anomaly determined time and the final anomaly determined time. anomaly monitoring means for determining, through monitoring, whether or not a driver of the vehicle is in an anomalous state in which the driver has lost his or her ability to drive the vehicle; and deceleration means (10, 30, 31, 40, 41) for automatically stopping the vehicle by decelerating the vehicle after a final anomaly determined time which is a point in time when the anomaly monitoring means finally determines that the driver is in the anomalous state, wherein the deceleration means (10, 30, 31, 40, 41) is configured to determine whether or not the vehicle is present in a deceleration prohibited section determined on the basis of places where automatically stopping the vehicle is inappropriate from the viewpoint of an ordinance, through use of at least either of division line information regarding division lines on left and right sides of a travel path of the vehicle and road information regarding the travel path of the vehicle, the division line information being recognized from road image data from an image capturing apparatus when the vehicle includes the image capturing apparatus, the road information being obtained from a navigation apparatus (100, 101, 102) when the vehicle includes the navigation apparatus (100, 101, 102); and the deceleration means (10, 30, 31, 40, 41) is configured to not decelerate the vehicle in the case where the deceleration means (10, 30, 31, 40, 41) determines that the vehicle is present in the deceleration prohibited section after the final anomaly determination time, characterized in that the deceleration means (10, 30, 31, 40, 41) is configured to decelerate the vehicle from a provisional anomaly determined time only when a speed of the vehicle is larger than a predetermined speed in a period between the provisionally anomaly determined time and the final anomaly determined time, wherein the provisional anomaly determined time is a point in time which is before the final anomaly determined time and at which the monitoring means determines that the driver is highly likely to be in the anomalous state; and the deceleration means (10, 30, 31, 40, 41) is configured to not decelerate the vehicle in the period between the provisional anomaly determined time and the final anomaly determined time in the case where the deceleration means (10, 30, 31, 40, 41) determines that the vehicle is present in the deceleration prohibited section in the period between the provisional anomaly determined time and the final anomaly determined time.