R.K.GAUBA, J.

1. Both these appeals are directed against the judgment dated 19.07.2011 of the motor accident claimants tribunal (tribunal) in accident claim case (MACT Petition No. 243/2008) which had been preferred by Pritam Singh, (the appellant in MAC Appeal No. 952/2011) on 28.08.2008 seeking compensation under Sections 166 and 140 of Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (MV Act) for the injuries and permanent disability (100%) suffered by him in a motor vehicular accident that had occurred on 25.08.2007 at about 7-7.30 p.m. on Sinnar Shirdi Road involving collision between two motor vehicles, one being Qualis bearing No. MH 01 CA 7481 (Qualis) and the other a truck bearing registration No. MH 18 M 7005 (the truck). The appellant Pritam Singh (claimant) was travelling in the Qualis car on way to Shirdi accompanied by certain others, when the said vehicle was involved in a head-on collision with the truck. The Qualis car was driven by Mohd. Akbar Kamar @ Raju Mohd. Qubal (Kavval) (fifth respondent in MAC Appeal No. 952/2011), it being owned by Maya Devi Agarwal (fourth respondent in MAC Appeal No. 952/2011). The truck, on the other hand, was driven by Rajendra Indrasingh Girase (se