JUDGMENT

DUPPALA VENKATA RAMANA,J. - This appeal under Sec. 173 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (for short "the Act") is filed at the behest of the claimants, challenging the Judgment and Award dtd. 16/10/2017 passed by the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal-cum-VII Additional District Judge (Fast Track Court), Visakhapatnam (for short "the Tribunal") in M.V.O.P.120 of 2015 awarding a sum of Rs.21,20,000.00 with interest @ 6% per annum as compensation to the claimants from the date of petition till the date of realization against Respondents 1 to 4 jointly and severally.

2. For the sake of convenience, the parties are hereinafter referred to as they are arrayed before the Tribunal in the claim petition.

3. The brief facts, as culled out from the record, are that this claim petition was filed by the claimants seeking compensation for the death of the deceased - T.Tirupathi Rao in a road traffic accident. On 6/11/2013 at 8.15 a.m., when the deceased was going on his motorcycle bearing No.TN 09 BS 9749 along with his two children - Neerajana and Rohit Ram Charan Teja to drop them at the school, and when he reached opposite to the Traffic Control Room, Sardar Patel Road, a garbage carrying v