3 Disposition in courts
Fig. 1-3-1-7 shows the percent distribution of persons sentenced to imprisonment with or without work in a court of fi rst instance in 2011 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 by term of imprisonment. For dangerous driving causing death, all (17) persons were sentenced to imprisonment without suspension of execution of the sentence, with the proportion of those sentenced to imprisonment for over fi ve years being high at 58.8%. For dangerous driving causing injury, the proportion of those sentenced to imprisonment without suspension of execution of the sentence was 22.0% (37 persons) (that of those sentenced to imprisonment without suspension of execution of the sentence for over fi ve years was 1.2%). In contrast to that 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 6.9% while that for violations of road traffic related acts 19.9%.
Fig. 1-3-1-7 Percent distribution of persons sentenced to imprisonment (with or without work) in a court of first instance for dangerous driving causing death or injury, etc. by term of imprisonment (2011)
The number of persons sentenced to fine in 2011 for negligence in vehicle driving/negligence in the pursuit of social activities causing death or injury (including those sentenced to fine in a court of first instance for causing death or injury through negligence) was 55,442 (of which 201 were sentenced to fine in a court of first instance) and that for violations of road traffic related acts 263,923 (270 (id.)) (Source: Annual Report of Judicial Statistics).