( 1 ) ). The petitioners of this group of Applications are the original applicants in a group of eleven petitions before the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal Valsad a Navsari for compensation to the tune of Rs. 9 999 It was the case of the applicants in all the petitions that they were travelling in a Matador towards Saputara and when they reached village Baj all of a sudden an ST bus came from the opposite direction driven by the original opponent No. 1 (respondent No. 1 herein) in an excessive speed rashly and negligently and dashed with the Matador as a result of which the petitioners were seriously injured; and therefore the claim for damages as prayed for in their respective petitions. The learned M. A. C. Tribunal by his common Judgment and award dismissed the petitions against which the present petitioners (original applicant) have preferred the respective appeals. Since the amount of compensation claimed was below Rs. 10 0 the appeals have been converted into the present group of Spl. Civil Applications. All these applications raise identical questions arise from similar facts and from the same common judgment and award hence they are being conveniently disposed