A vehicle control device comprising: a sensing section that senses a candidate of alert; and a control section (20, 22) that, in a case in which the sensing section senses a plurality of candidates of alert, determines a recognition situation with respect to the plurality of candidates of alert sensed by the sensing section, from a state of a driver that is detected by a state detecting section that detects a state of the driver, and carries out alert control with respect to a target of alert, which is a candidate having a highest priority among the plurality of candidates of alert for the determined recognition situation, characterized in that the control section (20, 22) determines the recognition situation from a sightline direction or a facing direction of the driver that serves as a state of the driver that is detected by the state detecting section, and carries out alert control while prioritizing, among the plurality of candidates of alert, a target of alert that is farthest from the sightline direction of the driver, and by using evaluation values, which are computed from relationships between angles of the plurality of candidates of alert that are sensed by the sensing section with respect to the sightline direction or the facing direction of the driver by using the driver's vehicle as the central coordinate and times to collision with the plurality of candidates of alert that are sensed by the sensing section, the control section (20, 22) specifies a target of alert that is to be given priority in alerting, and carries out alert control with respect to the target of alert that has been specified. a sensing section that senses a candidate of alert; and a control section (20, 22) that, in a case in which the sensing section senses a plurality of candidates of alert, determines a recognition situation with respect to the plurality of candidates of alert sensed by the sensing section, from a state of a driver that is detected by a state detecting section that detects a state of the driver, and carries out alert control with respect to a target of alert, which is a candidate having a highest priority among the plurality of candidates of alert for the determined recognition situation, characterized in that the control section (20, 22) determines the recognition situation from a sightline direction or a facing direction of the driver that serves as a state of the driver that is detected by the state detecting section, and carries out alert control while prioritizing, among the plurality of candidates of alert, a target of alert that is farthest from the sightline direction of the driver, and by using evaluation values, which are computed from relationships between angles of the plurality of candidates of alert that are sensed by the sensing section with respect to the sightline direction or the facing direction of the driver by using the driver's vehicle as the central coordinate and times to collision with the plurality of candidates of alert that are sensed by the sensing section, the control section (20, 22) specifies a target of alert that is to be given priority in alerting, and carries out alert control with respect to the target of alert that has been specified.