Vehicle control device

A vehicle control device that is applied to a vehicle having a driving source for generating a driving force for the vehicle, a driving mechanism for transmitting the driving force of the driving source to a plurality of wheels, a braking mechanism having an electronic parking brake for generating a parking brake force for at least one of the plurality of wheels, and a coupling state control mechanism for controlling state of coupling of the plurality of wheels, the vehicle control device comprising:

• a fastened state control means that controls the state of coupling of the plurality of wheels by controlling the coupling state control mechanism;
• and
• a lock stuck state determination means that determines whether the electronic parking brake is in a lock stuck state in which the parking brake force cannot be canceled;
• wherein the fastened state control means includes a stuck state special control means that, when the lock stuck state determination means determines that at least one of the plurality of wheels is in the lock stuck state, exercises stuck state special control to loosen or cancel state of coupling between a wheel determined to be in the lock stuck state and a wheel determined to be not in the lock stuck state.