A lane keeping assistance equipment is provided, for traveling while accurately following a lane marking, without any accompanying temporary stoppages or causing discomfort to the driver. The lane keeping assistance equipment 1 has a lane marking detecting means 2 for detecting lane marking locations LR, LL; a sideways distance detecting means 32 for detecting a distance R between an automotive vehicle and the lane marking locations LR, LL; a control means 3 for creating and setting a travel target point GP at a location separated from the lane marking location LR, LL and transmitting a signal to a response unit A for causing travel on the travel target point concerned; an intervening steering detecting means 31 for detecting an intervening steering act by the driver; and a measuring means 35 for measuring an elapsed time, wherein the control means 3 updates a distance amount Rgp in correspondence with changes in the above-mentioned distance R, during a time period T total, covering the continuation of the driver's intervening steering acts and the elapsing of a prescribed time T lap after the intervening steering acts end, and after the above-mentioned prescribed time T lap elapses, the control means 3 also causes the above-mentioned updated distance amount to become fixed.