JUDGMENT:

This appeal is preferred by the claimant, challenging the award dated 10.11.2014 passed in M.V.O.P.No.275/2012 on the file of Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal-cum-I Addl.District Judge, Visakhapatnam, (for short ‘the Tribunal’), wherein the Tribunal partly allowed the petition, awarded compensation of Rs.5,30,000/-with interest @ 7.5% p.a. from the date of petition, till the date of realisation, for the injuries sustained by him in a motor vehicle accident.

2. For the sake of convenience, the parties are arrayed as parties before the tribunal.

3. As seen from the record, the petitioner filed the application U/s.166 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (for brevity “the Act”) claiming a compensation of Rs.8,00,000/-on account of the injuries and disability sustained by the petitioner in a motor vehicle accident that occurred on 28.05.2010.

4. The facts would show that on 28.05.2010 at about 10.30 hours while the petitioner was going in tanker lorry bearing No.AP31X 4239 being its cleaner and reached Kotha Narayanapuram village, Thallada Mandal, Khammam District, which was driven