JUDGMENT :

This appeal is preferred by the petitioner/claimant, challenging the award dated 09.08.2016 passed in M.V.O.P.No.122/2012 on the file of Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal-cum-VIII Addl. District Judge, Chittoor, wherein the Tribunal while partly allowing the petition, awarded compensation of Rs.3,78,227/-with interest @ 7.5% p.a., from the date of petition, till the date of deposit, for the injuries sustained by the petitioner in a motor accident.

2. For the sake of convenience, the parties are arrayed as parties in the lower Court.

3. As seen from the record, originally the petitioners filed an application U/s.166 of Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (for brevity “the Act”) claiming compensation of Rs.15,00,000/-on account of the injuries sustained by the petitioner in a motor vehicle accident that occurred on 02/03.04.2011 at about 12.00 mid night.

4. The facts show that on the intervening night of 02/03.04.2011 at about 12.00 mid night the petitioner and his father went to Chittoor Town to purchase tablets for his mother. The petitioner was the pillion rider and when they reached near VSR Engineering Works on Puttur-Chittor road, a rally with scooters came from Chittoor Town in view