Method for preventing a safety-critical intervention in the vehicle control of a following vehicle on account of incorrect or maliciously falsified vehicle-to-X information, in which the following vehicle detects a negative acceleration of a vehicle driving directly in front by means of sensor information and a negative acceleration of at least one vehicle driving in front of the vehicle driving in front by means of vehicle-to-X information, wherein the vehicle-to-X information requests an intervention in steering means of the following vehicle in the form of a steering angle to be set and/or an intervention in braking means of the following vehicle in the form of a negative acceleration to be set in order to prevent the rear-end collision with the vehicle, and wherein the steering angle requested by the vehicle-to-X information and/or the requested negative acceleration is/are greater than a steering angle requested by the sensor information and/or driver inputs and/or a requested negative acceleration, characterized in that the intervention is initially performed with a minimum necessary steering angle for preventing the rear-end collision and/or a minimum necessary negative acceleration, and the intervention with the steering angle requested by the vehicle-to-X information and/or the requested negative acceleration is performed only if this steering angle and/or this negative acceleration is/are confirmed by the sensor information and/or by the driver inputs, wherein the deceleration of the vehicle driving in front of the vehicle driving in front, which is included in the vehicle-to-X information, and the available distance from the vehicle driving in front are used to determine the minimum necessary steering angle and/or the minimum necessary deceleration, wherein it is assumed that the vehicle driving in front will adopt the deceleration of the vehicle driving in front of the vehicle driving in front. in which the following vehicle detects a negative acceleration of a vehicle driving directly in front by means of sensor information and a negative acceleration of at least one vehicle driving in front of the vehicle driving in front by means of vehicle-to-X information, wherein the vehicle-to-X information requests an intervention in steering means of the following vehicle in the form of a steering angle to be set and/or an intervention in braking means of the following vehicle in the form of a negative acceleration to be set in order to prevent the rear-end collision with the vehicle, and wherein the steering angle requested by the vehicle-to-X information and/or the requested negative acceleration is/are greater than a steering angle requested by the sensor information and/or driver inputs and/or a requested negative acceleration, characterized in that the intervention is initially performed with a minimum necessary steering angle for preventing the rear-end collision and/or a minimum necessary negative acceleration, and the intervention with the steering angle requested by the vehicle-to-X information and/or the requested negative acceleration is performed only if this steering angle and/or this negative acceleration is/are confirmed by the sensor information and/or by the driver inputs, wherein the deceleration of the vehicle driving in front of the vehicle driving in front, which is included in the vehicle-to-X information, and the available distance from the vehicle driving in front are used to determine the minimum necessary steering angle and/or the minimum necessary deceleration, wherein it is assumed that the vehicle driving in front will adopt the deceleration of the vehicle driving in front of the vehicle driving in front. <EOS>