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Notified by the National Police Agency, the regulation on road rage is strengthened.
In the case this time, the point is that the suspect is arrested not for Road Traffic Act but for assault.
According to a lawyer who is familiar with cases related to automobile ...
this time, the car of the victim was under road rage for over 2km,
her car was moved sideways,
because it was a “malicious case” with a risk to cause accident and injury to the victims,
so the suspect was arrested for assault.
In the first place, “assault” is applied to the cases that violence is applied to a person while the victim does not get injured.
The range of “assault” is wide, there is also case that waving Japanese sword indoor would be accused for assault.
This time, the action of “road rage” is arrested as violence in a broad sense.
Even for the same road rage, depending on the situation, the suspect may be arrested for “violation of Road Traffic Act”.
In the occasion that the car approaches and provokes the car ahead violently on highway,
(for violation of obligation to keep distance from the car ahead)
when the suspect is prosecuted and found guilty,
the penalty is “imprisonment of not more than three months and fine of not more than 50,000 yen”.
On the other hand, when the suspect is found guilty of assault,
The penalty will at once become heavy to be “imprisonment of not more than two years and fine of not more than 300,000 yen”.
In addition, in the case that the suspect is questioned for assault,
the possibility of suspending his or her driving license at once increases.
This “suspension of driving license at once” visibly increases from 6 cases in 2017 to 37 cases as of August 2018.
It is understood that this year the police are also applying strict regulation on this issue.
Source: https://www.ntv.co.jp/zero/articles/105tpmxizxnnn2any8a.html