# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第百十七条 (Article 117) - Law: 道路交通法 (Road Traffic Act), 昭和三十五年法律第百五号 - English title "Road Traffic Act": 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: 第百十七条 (Article 117) — address `art-117` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-117 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-117 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百十七条 art-117 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-117 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-117 **第一項** 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。 art-117/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-117/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-117/par-1 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. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の場合において、同項の人の死傷が当該運転者の運転に起因するものであるときは、十年以下の拘禁刑又は百万円以下の罰金に処する。 art-117/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-117/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-117/par-2 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. machine translation, not official **第三項** 特定自動運行において特定自動運行用自動車の交通による人の死傷があつた場合において、第七十五条の二十三（特定自動運行において交通事故があつた場合の措置）第一項前段又は第三項前段の規定に違反したとき（特定自動運行主任者が違反した場合に限る。）は、当該違反行為をした者は、五年以下の拘禁刑又は五十万円以下の罰金に処する。 art-117/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-117/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-117/par-3 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. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-117/par-1: この項 → 道路交通法 第百十七条第一項 (Article 117, paragraph (1)), art-117/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-117/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-117/par-1 - art-117/par-1: 第七十二条 → 道路交通法 第七十二条 (Article 72), art-72 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-72 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-72 - art-117/par-1: 第一項 → 道路交通法 第七十二条第一項 (Article 72, paragraph (1)), art-72/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-72/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-72/par-1 - art-117/par-2: 前項 → 道路交通法 第百十七条第一項 (Article 117, paragraph (1)), art-117/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-117/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-117/par-1 - art-117/par-3: 第七十五条の二十三 → 道路交通法 第七十五条の二十三 (Article 75-23), art-75-23 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-75-23 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-75-23 - art-117/par-3: 第一項 → 道路交通法 第七十五条の二十三第一項 (Article 75-23, paragraph (1)), art-75-23/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-75-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-75-23/par-1 - art-117/par-3: 第三項 → 道路交通法 第七十五条の二十三第三項 (Article 75-23, paragraph (3)), art-75-23/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-75-23/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-75-23/par-3 ## Cited by 10 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第七十五条の二十三第一項（特定自動運行において交通事故があつた場合の措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-75-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-75-23/par-1 - 道路交通法 第九十条第二項第四号（免許の拒否等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-90/par-2/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-90/par-2/item-4 - 道路交通法 第百三条第二項第四号（免許の取消し、停止等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-103/par-2/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-103/par-2/item-4 - 道路交通法 第百三条の二第一項第一号（免許の効力の仮停止） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-103-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-103-2/par-1/item-1 - 道路交通法 第百七条の五第二項第四号（自動車等の運転禁止等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-107-5/par-2/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-107-5/par-2/item-4 - 道路交通法 第百十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-117/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-117/par-1 - 道路交通法 第百十七条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-117/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-117/par-2 - 道路交通法 第百十七条の五第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-117-5/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-117-5/par-1/item-1 - 道路交通法 第百十七条の五第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-117-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-117-5/par-2 - 道路交通法 第百二十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-123/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-123/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 道路交通法 — the text in force from 2026-07-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/335AC0000000105/20260721_508AC0000000052), retrieved 2026-10-13 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Road Traffic Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2962/tb), retrieved 2026-10-13 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch road-traffic-act-20261013T074321-014, translated 2026-10-13 - This site's parser, version 190 — 道路交通法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13