JUDGMENT :

B.V.L.N. CHAKRAVARTHI, J.

1. This appeal is preferred by the petitioner/claimant challenging the award dated 31.10.2011 passed in M.V.O.P. No. 832/2008 on the file of Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal-cum-I Addl. District Judge, Visakhapatnam, wherein the Tribunal while partly allowing the petition, awarded compensation of Rs. 10,000/- 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 r/w. 455 of Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (for brevity “the Act”) claiming compensation of Rs. 1,00,000/- on account of the injuries sustained by the petitioner in a motor vehicle accident occurred on 17.07.2008 at about 01.00 p.m. while the injured was going to his house on his scooter bearing No. AP-32D-499, by the offending car bearing No. AP-9-BA-6345, driven by the 1st respondent/driver, which met with an accident at Industrial Estate, Kancharapalem, Visakhapatnam.

4. The facts show that 17.07.2008 the petitioner was going on his scoot