Article 75-23Measures in Case of a Traffic Accident in Specified Automated Operation

①When, 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)), there is a traffic accident involving a motor vehicle for specified automated operation (limited to one for which the measure prescribed in Article 75-20, paragraph (1), item (i) has been taken), the specified automated operation supervisor assigned pursuant to that item must take the measures of immediately notifying the fire-services organization nearest to the scene of the traffic accident and of sending a person in charge of on-site measures to the scene of the traffic accident (or, where it is clear that no person has been killed or injured in the traffic accident, the measure of sending a person in charge of on-site measures to the scene of the traffic accident). In this case, the specified automated operation supervisor of the motor vehicle for specified automated operation must immediately report the particulars of the traffic accident to a police officer at the police station nearest to the scene of the traffic accident (including a police box or residential police box; the same applies in paragraphs (3) and (4)).

③When, in specified automated operation, there is a traffic accident involving a motor vehicle for specified automated operation (limited to one for which the measure prescribed in Article 75-20, paragraph (1), item (ii) has been taken), the specified automated operation supervisor or other staff member who was made to ride in the motor vehicle for specified automated operation involved in the traffic accident pursuant to that item (referred to in paragraph (5) as the "specified automated operation supervisor or other staff member") must immediately aid injured persons, prevent road hazards, and otherwise take the necessary measures. In this case, the specified automated operation supervisor of the motor vehicle for specified automated operation (or, where it is unavoidable because the specified automated operation supervisor has died or been injured, another staff member; the same applies in the following paragraph) must report the particulars of the traffic accident to a police officer if one is at the scene, or, if no police officer is at the scene, immediately to a police officer at the nearest police station.

④On finding it to be necessary to do so in order to aid an injured person or prevent a road hazard, a police officer at the nearest police station who receives a report pursuant to the second sentence of the preceding paragraph may order the specified automated operation supervisor giving the report not to leave the scene until a police officer arrives.

⑤In a case as referred to in the preceding three paragraphs, a police officer at the scene of the traffic accident may give a person in charge of on-site measures or a specified automated operation supervisor or other staff member at the scene of the traffic accident the instructions necessary to aid injured persons, prevent road hazards, or otherwise ensure the safety and fluidity of traffic.

⑥The provisions of Article 72-2 and Article 73 apply mutatis mutandis to the case where there is a traffic accident in specified automated operation. In this case, in Article 72-2, paragraph (1), the phrase "paragraph (3) of the preceding Article" is deemed to be replaced with "Article 75-23, paragraph (5)", the phrase "the driver or staff member of" with "the person in charge of on-site measures (meaning a person in charge of on-site measures prescribed in Article 75-19, paragraph (3); the same applies hereinafter) or the specified automated operation supervisor or other staff member (meaning a specified automated operation supervisor or other staff member prescribed in Article 75-23, paragraph (3); the same applies hereinafter) for", the phrase "that paragraph" with "paragraph (5) of that Article", and the phrase "the scene" with "the scene of the traffic accident"; and in Article 73, the phrase "other than the driver or staff member" is deemed to be replaced with "other than the specified automated operation supervisor or other staff member", the phrase "the driver's or staff member's taking the measures prescribed in the first sentence of Article 72, paragraph (1)" with "the taking, by the person in charge of on-site measures for the vehicle or streetcar, of the measures prescribed in Article 75-23, paragraph (2), or the taking, by the specified automated operation supervisor or other staff member, of the measures prescribed in the first sentence of paragraph (3) of that Article", and "又は" (or) with "若しくは" (or, joining a smaller group of alternatives).