# 自動車の運転により人を死傷させる行為等の処罰に関する法律 / Act on Punishment of Acts Inflicting Death or Injury on Others by Driving a Motor Vehicle, etc. — 第三条 (Article 3) - Law: 自動車の運転により人を死傷させる行為等の処罰に関する法律 (Act on Punishment of Acts Inflicting Death or Injury on Others by Driving a Motor Vehicle, etc.), 平成二十五年法律第八十六号 - English title "Act on Punishment of Acts Inflicting Death or Injury on Others by Driving a Motor Vehicle, etc.": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第三条 (Article 3) — address `art-3` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/dangerous-driving-act/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/425AC0000000086/art-3 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三条 art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/dangerous-driving-act/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/425AC0000000086/art-3 **第一項** アルコールの影響により、その走行中に正常な運転に支障が生じるおそれがある状態で、自動車を運転し、よって、アルコール影響正常運転困難状態に陥り、人を負傷させた者は十二年以下の拘禁刑に処し、人を死亡させた者は十五年以下の拘禁刑に処する。薬物の影響により、その走行中に正常な運転に支障が生じるおそれがある状態で、自動車を運転し、よって、薬物影響正常運転困難状態に陥り、人を死傷させた者も、同様とする。 art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/dangerous-driving-act/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/425AC0000000086/art-3/par-1 A person who drives a motor vehicle in a state likely to hinder safe driving under the influence of alcohol, and thereby falls into a state of difficulty in driving safely under the influence of alcohol, is subject to punishment by imprisonment for not more than 12 years when the person thereby causes injury of another, or imprisonment for not more than 15 years when the person thereby causes death of another; the same applies to a person who drives a motor vehicle in a state likely to hinder safe driving under the influence of drugs, and thereby falls into a state of difficulty in driving safely under the influence of drugs, and thereby causes death or injury of another. machine translation, not official **第二項** 自動車の運転に支障を及ぼすおそれがある病気として政令で定めるものの影響により、その走行中に正常な運転に支障が生じるおそれがある状態で、自動車を運転し、よって、その病気の影響により正常な運転が困難な状態に陥り、人を死傷させた者も、前項と同様とする。 art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/dangerous-driving-act/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/425AC0000000086/art-3/par-2 The preceding paragraph also applies when a person who drives a motor vehicle in a state where the person is likely to hinder safe driving under the influence of a disease specified by Cabinet Order as those which are likely to hinder the safe driving of motor vehicles, thereby comes to have difficulty in driving safely under the influence of the disease, and causes death or injury. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-3/par-2: 前項 → 自動車の運転により人を死傷させる行為等の処罰に関する法律 第三条第一項 (Article 3, paragraph (1)), art-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/dangerous-driving-act/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/425AC0000000086/art-3/par-1 ## Cited by 11 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 自動車の運転により人を死傷させる行為等の処罰に関する法律 第二条第一項第一号（危険運転致死傷） — https://japanlaw.org/en/dangerous-driving-act/art-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/425AC0000000086/art-2/par-1/item-1 - 自動車の運転により人を死傷させる行為等の処罰に関する法律 第二条第一項第二号（危険運転致死傷） — https://japanlaw.org/en/dangerous-driving-act/art-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/425AC0000000086/art-2/par-1/item-2 - 自動車の運転により人を死傷させる行為等の処罰に関する法律 第三条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/dangerous-driving-act/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/425AC0000000086/art-3/par-2 - 自動車の運転により人を死傷させる行為等の処罰に関する法律 第六条第二項（無免許運転による加重） — https://japanlaw.org/en/dangerous-driving-act/art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/425AC0000000086/art-6/par-2 - 道路交通法 第九十条第二項第二号（免許の拒否等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-90/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-90/par-2/item-2 - 道路交通法 第九十条第二項第五号（免許の拒否等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-90/par-2/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-90/par-2/item-5 - 道路交通法 第九十九条の二第四項第二号ニ（技能検定員） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-99-2/par-4/item-2/sub-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-99-2/par-4/item-2/sub-4 - 道路交通法 第百三条第二項第二号（免許の取消し、停止等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-103/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-103/par-2/item-2 - 道路交通法 第百三条第二項第五号（免許の取消し、停止等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-103/par-2/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-103/par-2/item-5 - 道路交通法 第百七条の五第二項第二号（自動車等の運転禁止等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-107-5/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-107-5/par-2/item-2 - 道路交通法 第百八条の四第三項第三号（指定講習機関） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-108-4/par-3/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-108-4/par-3/item-3 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 自動車の運転により人を死傷させる行為等の処罰に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-07-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/425AC0000000086/20260721_508AC0000000052), retrieved 2026-10-11 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Punishment of Acts Inflicting Death or Injury on Others by Driving a Motor Vehicle, etc. — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2965/tb), retrieved 2026-10-11 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch dangerous-driving-act-20261011T100937-001, translated 2026-10-11 - This site's parser, version 185 — 自動車の運転により人を死傷させる行為等の処罰に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11