The National Police Agency wants the law changed to allow it to revoke driver's licenses for reckless driving, amid public concern fueled by high-profile road-rage cases over the past few years, a source said Thursday.

A bill for harsher penalties on such drivers will be submitted to the Diet early next year, the source said.

Currently, licenses are not revoked for road rage unless it leads to death or injury. Drivers are penalized for dangerous acts such as tailgating, repeatedly swerving between lanes or braking suddenly, but they do not lose their license unless they repeatedly violate traffic laws. Even then, those who drive recklessly enough "to clearly have a large possibility of causing danger" have their license suspended for 180 days at most.