# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第七十三条 (Article 73) - 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: 第七十三条 (Article 73)（妨害の禁止） — address `art-73` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-73 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-73 - 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. --- ### 第七十三条（妨害の禁止） — (Prohibition on Interfering) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-73 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-73 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-73 **第一項** 交通事故があつた場合において、当該交通事故に係る車両等の運転者等以外の者で当該車両等に乗車しているものがあるときは、その者は、当該車両等の運転者等が第七十二条第一項前段に規定する措置を講じ、又は同項後段に規定する報告をするのを妨げてはならない。 art-73/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-73/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-73/par-1 In the event of a traffic accident, if a person other than the driver or staff member of the vehicle or streetcar involved in the traffic accident is in the vehicle or streetcar, that person must not interfere with the driver's or staff member's taking the measures prescribed in the first sentence of Article 72, paragraph (1) or with the driver's or staff member's reporting as prescribed in the second sentence of that paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-73/par-1: 第七十二条第一項 → 道路交通法 第七十二条第一項 (Article 72, paragraph (1)), art-72/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-72/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-72/par-1 ## Cited by 2 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六項（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/ja/road-traffic-act/art-75-23/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-75-23/par-6 - 道路交通法 第百二十条第一項第十号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-120/par-1/item-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-120/par-1/item-10 --- ## 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 - This site's parser, version 190 — 道路交通法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13