A method for controlling a safety device of a vehicle. The safety device reacts to an imminent collision of the vehicle with a collision object by an intervention in a longitudinal and/or lateral guidance of the vehicle. Environment data and trip data regarding the collision object and the vehicle, and intervention data regarding a planned intervention of the safety device, are read in. A first expected impingement point of the collision object on the vehicle is ascertained using the environment data and the trip data, and a second expected impingement point is ascertained using the environment data, the trip data, and the intervention data. A location of the first expected impingement point and of a location of the second expected impingement point relative to subregions referred to the vehicle are evaluated, using reference data. A control signal for the safety device is generated depending on a result of the evaluation.