This batch of seven appeals are being disposed of by this common order because, though they are filed against different MVOPs before Motor Accident Claims Tribunal-cum-III Additional District Judge, Guntur, they arise out of same accident. The question involved in the accident is also the same. In addition to this, in all the cases except in one case, the claimants belong to one family.

The admitted as well as disputed fact of the matter is as follows. Munagala Srinivasa Rao, his wife Lakshmi, daughter Ramya, son Srikanth and nephew Satyanarayana, in all five persons, hired an ambassador car bearing No.AP 7T-6377 to go to Shirdi from Guntur. On 05.10.1998, after visiting Sainath temple at Shirdi, they started to Hyderabad in the same car. When the car reached Anamthara garden on the outskirts of Kandi village, a lorry, bearing No.C.11-7646 insured with United India Insurance Company Limited (insurer), coming in the opposite direction dashed against the car. In the accident that occurred the driver of car and son Srikanth died instantaneously. Srinivasa Rao, his wife and daughter as well as nephew allegedly received injuries. Contending that accident occurred due to rash