# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第七十五条の三 (Article 75-3) - 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: 第七十五条の三 (Article 75-3)（危険防止等の措置） — address `art-75-3` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-75-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-75-3 - 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. --- ### 第七十五条の三（危険防止等の措置） — (Hazard Prevention and Other Such Measures) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-75-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-75-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-75-3 **第一項** 警察官は、道路の損壊、交通事故の発生その他の事情により高速自動車国道又は自動車専用道路（以下「高速自動車国道等」という。）において交通の危険が生じ、又は交通の混雑が生ずるおそれがある場合において、当該道路における危険を防止し、その他交通の安全と円滑を図るためやむを得ないと認めるときは、必要な限度において、その現場に進行してくる自動車の通行を禁止し、若しくは制限し、又はその現場にある自動車の運転者に対し、第十七条第一項及び道路法第四十七条第四項の規定に基づく政令の規定にかかわらず路肩又は路側帯を通行すべきことを命じ、若しくは第八条第一項、第三章第一節、同章第六節若しくはこの章に規定する自動車の通行方法と異なる通行方法によるべきことを命ずることができる。 art-75-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-75-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-75-3/par-1 Notwithstanding Article 17, paragraph (1) and Cabinet Order under Article 47, paragraph (4) of the Road Act, on finding a compelling reason to do so in order to prevent a road hazard or otherwise ensure the safety and fluidity of traffic on a national expressway or limited highway (hereinafter referred to as a "national expressway or limited highway") on which road damage, a traffic accident, or other circumstances are likely to cause a traffic hazard or traffic congestion, a police officer may prohibit or restrict road use by motor vehicles arriving at the scene or order the drivers of motor vehicles at the scene to travel on the shoulder or a side strip of the road or to comply with different traffic rules than the traffic rules for motor vehicles that are prescribed in paragraph (1) of Article 8, Chapter III, Section 1, and Section 6 or this Chapter, but only so far as is necessary. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-75-3/par-1: 第十七条第一項 → 道路交通法 第十七条第一項 (Article 17, paragraph (1)), art-17/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-17/par-1 - art-75-3/par-1: 道路法第四十七条第四項 → e-Gov law 327AC1000000180, 第四十七条第四項 (Article 47, paragraph (4)), art-47/par-4 — not held in this collection - art-75-3/par-1: 第八条第一項 → 道路交通法 第八条第一項 (Article 8, paragraph (1)), art-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-8/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第七十五条の二十二第一項第六号（特定自動運行が終了した場合の措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-75-22/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-75-22/par-1/item-6 - 道路交通法 第七十五条の二十四第一項（特定自動運行の特則） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-75-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-75-24/par-1 - 道路交通法 第百十九条第一項第十八号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-119/par-1/item-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-119/par-1/item-18 --- ## 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