Patent ID: 6980130

Claim:
An emergency reporting device to be installed in a vehicle, comprising: a base station communication section configured and arranged to communicate with one of a plurality of base stations and send an emergency signal to the one of the base stations after entering a communication area of the one of the base stations with the emergency signal; a vehicle communication section configured and arranged to communicate with a peripheral vehicle to receive travel information of the peripheral vehicle; and an emergency signal control unit including a travel information acquisition section configured to acquire travel information of the vehicle, a peripheral vehicle detection section configured to detect the peripheral vehicle equipped with the emergency reporting device in a peripheral area of the vehicle, and a transmission determination section configured to determine whether or not to send the emergency signal to the peripheral vehicle based on a comparison of the travel information of the vehicle and the travel information of the peripheral vehicle, the vehicle communication section being further configured and arranged to send the emergency signal to the peripheral vehicle based on a determination result of the transmission determination section.