The appeal is dismissed.

The grounds of appeal are examined.

As stated in its reasoning, the lower court upheld the first instance judgment dismissing a public prosecution pursuant to the main sentence of Article 4(1) of the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Settlement of Traffic Accidents and Article 327 subparag. 2 of the Criminal Procedure Act on the grounds that the Defendant’s act of violating the signals cannot be deemed as a direct cause of the

The judgment below

Examining the reasoning in light of the record, the lower court did not err in its judgment by exceeding the bounds of the principle of free evaluation of evidence against logical and empirical rules, or by misapprehending the legal doctrine on the causal relationship between the signal violation

Therefore, the appeal is dismissed. It is so decided as per Disposition by the assent of all participating Justices on the bench.