To provide an improved emergency call device for a vehicle, which solves a problem that although, in general, an occasion, where a person riding in a vehicle gets physically poor, occurs at an extremely low rate relative to a total riding time, if a physically-poor-person-monitoring device or a notification device is continuously kept in operation, an effective operation rate of facility is lowered, and an accuracy of abnormality determination is lowered.

An emergency call device for a vehicle, includes: bio-information reading means for reading bio-information from a finger of a crew member; wireless transmission means for wirelessly transmitting the bio-information to a help net center; and a switch for detecting that a finger of a person is pressed on the bio-information reading means, so as to initiate the bio-information reading means.