# 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. — 第五条 (Article 5) - 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: 第五条 (Article 5)（過失運転致死傷） — address `art-5` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/dangerous-driving-act/art-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/425AC0000000086/art-5 - 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. --- ### 第五条（過失運転致死傷） — (Negligent Driving Causing Death or Injury) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/dangerous-driving-act/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/425AC0000000086/art-5 **第一項** 自動車の運転上必要な注意を怠り、よって人を死傷させた者は、七年以下の拘禁刑又は百万円以下の罰金に処する。ただし、その傷害が軽いときは、情状により、その刑を免除することができる。 art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/dangerous-driving-act/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/425AC0000000086/art-5/par-1 A person who fails to exercise the due care required in driving a motor vehicle and thereby causes the death or injury of another is subject to punishment by imprisonment for not more than 7 years or a fine of not more than 1,000,000 yen; provided, however, that the person may be granted an absolute discharge in the light of circumstances if the injury is minor. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 3 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 第六条第四項（無免許運転による加重） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/dangerous-driving-act/art-6/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/425AC0000000086/art-6/par-4 - 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/ja/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 第百八条の四第三項第三号（指定講習機関） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/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