If a person dies or is injured by a moving vehicle or streetcar (other than a light road vehicle; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) and the driver of that vehicle or streetcar violates the first sentence of Article 72 (Measures in the Event of a Traffic Accident), paragraph (1), the driver is subject to imprisonment for not more than five years or a fine of not more than 500,000 yen.
In a case as referred to in the preceding paragraph, if the death or injury of a person as referred to in that paragraph is attributable to the driver's driving, the driver is subject to imprisonment for not more than 10 years or a fine of not more than one million yen.
If, in specified automated operation, a person dies or is injured by a moving motor vehicle for specified automated operation and there is a violation of the first sentence of Article 75-23 (Measures in Case of a Traffic Accident in Specified Automated Operation), paragraph (1) or the first sentence of paragraph (3) of that Article (limited to a violation by a specified automated operation supervisor), the person who committed that violation is subject to imprisonment for not more than five years or a fine of not more than 500,000 yen.
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If a person dies or is injured by a moving vehicle or streetcar (other than a light road vehicle; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) and the driver of that vehicle or streetcar violates…
車両等（軽車両を除く。以下この項において同じ。）の運転者が、当該車両等の交通による人の死傷があつた場合において、第七十二条（交通事故の場合の措置）第一項前段の規定に違反したときは、五年以下の拘禁刑又は五十万円以下の罰金に処する。
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In the event of a traffic accident, the driver or other staff member of the vehicle or streetcar involved in the traffic accident (hereinafter referred to in this Section as a "driver, etc.") must…
交通事故があつたときは、当該交通事故に係る車両等の運転者その他の乗務員（以下この節において「運転者等」という。）は、直ちに車両等の運転を停止して、負傷者を救護し、道路における危険を防止する等必要な措置を講じなければならない。
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In the event of a traffic accident, the driver or other staff member of the vehicle or streetcar involved in the traffic accident (hereinafter referred to in this Section as a "driver, etc.") must…
交通事故があつたときは、当該交通事故に係る車両等の運転者その他の乗務員（以下この節において「運転者等」という。）は、直ちに車両等の運転を停止して、負傷者を救護し、道路における危険を防止する等必要な措置を講じなければならない。
Open this provisionMeasures in Case of a Traffic Accident in Specified Automated Operation
When, in specified automated operation (including the case where specified automated operation has ended on a road; the same applies in paragraphs (3) and (6) and Article 117, paragraph (3))…
特定自動運行（道路において当該特定自動運行が終了した場合を含む。第三項及び第六項並びに第百十七条第三項において同じ。）において特定自動運行用自動車（第七十五条の二十第一項第一号に規定する措置が講じられたものに限る。）に係る交通事故があつたときは、同号の規定により配置された特定自動運行主任者は…
Open this provisionMeasures in Case of a Traffic Accident in Specified Automated Operation
When, in specified automated operation (including the case where specified automated operation has ended on a road; the same applies in paragraphs (3) and (6) and Article 117, paragraph (3))…
特定自動運行（道路において当該特定自動運行が終了した場合を含む。第三項及び第六項並びに第百十七条第三項において同じ。）において特定自動運行用自動車（第七十五条の二十第一項第一号に規定する措置が講じられたものに限る。）に係る交通事故があつたときは、同号の規定により配置された特定自動運行主任者は…
Open this provisionMeasures in Case of a Traffic Accident in Specified Automated Operation
When, in specified automated operation, there is a traffic accident involving a motor vehicle for specified automated operation…
特定自動運行において特定自動運行用自動車（第七十五条の二十第一項第二号に規定する措置が講じられたものに限る。）に係る交通事故があつたときは、当該交通事故に係る特定自動運行用自動車に同号の規定により乗車させられた特定自動運行主任者その他の乗務員（第五項において「特定自動運行主任者等」という。）は、直ちに、負傷者を救護し…
Open this provisionlight road vehiclemachine translation
「軽車両」
A bicycle, cart or other vehicle moved by human or animal power or towed by another vehicle without rails (including sleds and horses or cattle, but not children's vehicles), or a motorized vehicle a Cabinet Office Order (内閣府令) treats as like one, other than small mobility vehicles (移動用小型車), vehicles for persons with physical disabilities (身体障害者用の車), walking-aid carts (歩行補助車等) and anything that can be driven by remote operation (遠隔操作).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xi)· applies throughout the law
vehicle or streetcarmachine translation
「車両等」
A vehicle (車両) or a streetcar (路面電車).
Short name set inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xvii)
drivingmachine translation
「運転」
Using a vehicle or streetcar on a road as it is meant to be used, including moving a motor vehicle or motorized bicycle by pedals or other human-powered gear it has besides its motor, but not specified automated operation (特定自動運行).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xvii)· applies throughout the law
specified automated operationmachine translation
「特定自動運行」
Operating a motor vehicle on a road by its automated operation device (自動運行装置), used within the conditions of use the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism attaches to that device under Article 41, paragraph (2) of the Road Transport Vehicle Act, where the device can stop the vehicle at once, automatically and safely, if the vehicle becomes a defective vehicle (整備不良車両) or those conditions stop being met, and where no one is operating the vehicle's controls in response to the road, traffic and vehicle conditions.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xvii-2)· applies throughout the law
drivermachine translation
「運転者」
The person driving a vehicle or streetcar (車両等).
Short name set inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xviii)
traffic accidentmachine translation
「交通事故」
The death or injury of a person, or damage to property, caused by the traffic of a vehicle or streetcar (車両等).
Short name set inArticle 67, paragraph (2)
motor vehicle for specified automated operationmachine translation
「特定自動運行用自動車」
A motor vehicle used for specified automated operation (特定自動運行).
Short name set inArticle 75-12, paragraph (2), item (ii), (a)
specified automated operation supervisormachine translation
「特定自動運行主任者」
The person a specified automated operation provider (特定自動運行実施者) must designate under Article 75-19, paragraph (2), from among those meeting aptitude requirements a Cabinet Office Order (内閣府令) sets, to take the measures this Act requires of that person during specified automated operation (特定自動運行), such as those after a traffic accident.
Defined inArticle 75-24, paragraph (1)
fine
罰金
A criminal punishment of paying money to the state, of 10,000 yen or more, or less where it is reduced (Penal Code, Article 15). It ranks below imprisonment (拘禁刑) and above penal detention (拘留) and a petty fine (科料) (Articles 9 and 10, paragraph (1)). A person who cannot pay it in full is held in a workhouse (労役場) for one day to two years, or up to three years where fines are imposed together, a period set when the sentence is passed (Article 18, paragraphs (1), (3) and (4)); not within thirty days of the sentence becoming final without the person's consent (paragraph (5)). If it is not enforced for three years after the sentence becomes final, the person is released from it by prescription (Articles 31 and 32, item (v)); the three years do not run while its execution is suspended under law or the person is abroad, and an act of execution interrupts them (Articles 33 and 34, paragraph (2)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 15, 18, 31 to 34 as a reference.
imprisonment
拘禁刑
The punishment of being held in a penal institution (刑事施設), for life or for a fixed term of one month to twenty years (Penal Code, Article 12, paragraphs (1) and (2)); a fixed term can be raised to thirty years where the punishment is aggravated, or cut below one month where it is reduced (Article 14, paragraph (2)). To help the person reform and rehabilitate, they may be made to do work or given guidance (Article 12, paragraph (3)). It ranks below the death penalty and above a fine (罰金) among the principal punishments (Articles 9 and 10, paragraph (1)). It replaced imprisonment with work (懲役) and imprisonment without work (禁錮) when the Act Partially Amending the Penal Code, etc. (Act No. 67 of 2022) came into force (Act No. 67 of 2022, Article 2), and a person sentenced to either is treated, for the rules on a person's qualifications, as sentenced to imprisonment for the same term (Act No. 68 of 2022, Article 443, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 12, 14, Act No. 67 of 2022, Art. 2 and Act No. 68 of 2022, Art. 443 as a reference.