Strict punishment for "while driving" from December 13th at 11:42 on September 13
Regarding “driving while driving” while using a mobile phone, etc., the fines and violations will be tripled from December.
Since there were many cases of fatal accidents while playing games on smartphones or watching emails while driving, the National Road Traffic Act was revised in May, and the National Police Agency has been studying specific penalties. It was.
According to the enforcement order decided by the cabinet meeting on the 13th, the penalty for the act of calling on a mobile phone or looking at the screen of a smartphone while driving was raised from December, and for ordinary cars from the previous 6000 yen It will be 18,000 yen, 3 times.
Also, the traffic violation points will be raised from 1 to 3 points in the case of “while driving” and from 6 points to 2 points if an accident is caused by “while driving”.
In addition, if you cause an accident while driving, you may be imprisoned for up to 1 year or fined up to 300,000 yen.
According to the National Police Agency, the number of cases of accidents using mobile phones while driving was 2790 in the last year, an increase of about 1.4 times compared to 2013 six years ago. Strengthening.