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Article 126Overturning of Trains Causing Death

第百二十六条(汽車転覆等及び同致死)

A person who overturns or destroys a train or a tram in which a person is actually present is punished by imprisonment for life or for a definite term of 3 years or more.

現に人がいる汽車又は電車を転覆させ、又は破壊した者は、無期又は三年以上の拘禁刑に処する。

The same applies to a person who capsizes, sinks or destroys a vessel in which a person is actually present.

現に人がいる艦船を転覆させ、沈没させ、又は破壊した者も、前項と同様とする。

A person who committed a crime prescribed under the preceding two paragraphs, causing the death of another person is punished by the death penalty or imprisonment for life.

前二項の罪を犯し、よって人を死亡させた者は、死刑又は無期拘禁刑に処する。

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