JUDGMENT :

K. SREENIVASA REDDY, J.

1. Challenge in this M.A.C.M.A. filed by the appellant herein/Insurance Company, is to the Award, dated 24.04.2012, in M.V.O.P. No. 362 of 2007 on the file of the Chairman, Motor Accident Claims Tribunal-cum-VI Additional District Judge (Fast Track Court), Tirupathi (‘the Tribunal’ for short) whereunder the Tribunal, partly allowed the claim for compensation made by respondent No. 1 herein/claimant for a sum of Rs.3,00,000/- on account of the injuries sustained by him in a motor vehicle accident occurred on 14.02.2006 at about 8.14 a.m.

2. The parties to this M.A.C.M.A. will hereinafter be referred to, as described before the Tribunal, for the sake of convenience.

3. The case of the claimant before the Tribunal, in brief, according to the averments set out in the claim petition, is as follows:

On 14.02.2006 at 8.15 a.m. the claimant boarded into a lorry bearing registration No. AP04 T 7900 (hereinafter referred to, as ‘the offending vehicle’) along with his tomato load; when the offending vehicle reached 41/8 furlong stone, Kalluru Ghat on Piler-Chittoor road, NH-18, respondent No. 1, being the driver of the offending vehicle, drove the same in a rash