JUDGMENT :

This appeal under Section 173(1) of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (for short “the Act”) has been filed by the appellant/petitioner challenging the judgment and award dt.26.10.2005 delivered by the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal-cum-I Additional District Court, Kurnool in M.V.O.P.No.23 of 2004 granting compensation of a sum of Rs.2,23,300/- alongwith 7.5% interest thereon from the date of the claim petition till the date of realization of the amount to the petitioner on account of injuries sustained by the petitioner in a road accident near Sivalayam at Kadapa-Tadipatri road on 08.03.2003.

2. For the sake of convenience, the parties are referred to as they are arrayed before the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal (hereinafter referred to as “the Tribunal”).

3. The factual matrix of the case is thus:

a) The Petitioner in the claim petition filed the above O.P stating inter alia that on 08.03.2003 while he was traveling by a R.T.C bus bearing Registration No.AP 9 Z 7484 from Pulivendula to Tadipatri and when the bus reached Sivalayam at about 7.10 p.m., the offending vehicle i