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 White paper on crime 2009 Part1/Chapter3/Section1/3 

3 Disposition in courts

  Fig. 1-3-1-6 shows the percent distribution by term of imprisonment of persons sentenced to imprisonment with or without work in the court of first instance in 2008 for dangerous driving causing death or injury, negligence in vehicle driving / negligence in the pursuit of social activities causing death or injury, and violations of road traffic related acts.
  For dangerous driving causing death, the proportion of persons sentenced to imprisonment without suspension of execution of the sentence was 96.4% (27 persons) and that of those sentenced to imprisonment without suspension of execution of the sentence for over five years was 57.1%. For dangerous driving causing injury, the proportion of persons sentenced to imprisonment without suspension of execution of the sentence was 28.9% (69 persons) (that of those sentenced to imprisonment without suspension of execution of the sentence for over five years was 1.3%). Meanwhile, the proportion of persons sentenced to imprisonment without suspension of execution of the sentence for negligence in vehicle driving / negligence in the pursuit of social activities causing death or injury was 9.7% while that for violations of road traffic related acts was 19.8%.

Fig. 1-3-1-6  Percent distribution of persons sentenced to imprisonment (with or without work) in the court of first instance for dangerous driving causing death or injury, etc. by term of imprisonment (2008)

  The number of persons sentenced to fine in 2008 for negligence in vehicle driving / negligence in the pursuit of social activities causing death or injury (including those sentenced to fine in the court of first instance for causing death or injury through negligence) was 63,475 (of which the number of persons sentenced to fine in the court of first instance was 156) and that for violations of road traffic related acts was 345,199 (382 (id.)) (Source: Annual Report of Judicial Statistics).