# 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. — 第四条 (Article 4) - 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: 第四条 (Article 4)（過失運転致死傷アルコール等影響発覚免脱） — address `art-4` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/dangerous-driving-act/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/425AC0000000086/art-4 - 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. --- ### 第四条（過失運転致死傷アルコール等影響発覚免脱） — (Evasion of Detection of Influence of Alcohol, etc. in Case of Negligent Driving Causing Death or Injury) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/dangerous-driving-act/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/425AC0000000086/art-4 **第一項** アルコール又は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た者が、運転上必要な注意を怠り、よって人を死傷させた場合において、その運転の時のアルコール又は薬物の影響の有無又は程度が発覚することを免れる目的で、更にアルコール又は薬物を摂取すること、その場を離れて身体に保有するアルコール又は薬物の濃度を減少させることその他その影響の有無又は程度が発覚することを免れるべき行為をしたときは、十二年以下の拘禁刑に処する。 art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/dangerous-driving-act/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/425AC0000000086/art-4/par-1 When a person, who drives under the influence of alcohol or drugs in a state likely to hinder the safe driving of a motor vehicle fails to exercise the due care required in driving and thereby causes the death or injury of another, the person is subject to punishment by imprisonment for not more than 12 years, to the extent the person engages, with the intent to evade the detection of the existence or extent of the influence of alcohol or drugs while driving, in any act of consuming further alcohol or drugs, leaving the site so that the concentration of alcohol or drugs in his or her body may be reduced, or otherwise evading the detection of the existence or extent of the influence. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 8 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 第六条第三項（無免許運転による加重） — https://japanlaw.org/en/dangerous-driving-act/art-6/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/425AC0000000086/art-6/par-3 - 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