JUDGMENT

(Prayer: Civil Miscellaneous Appeal filed under Section 173 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 against the judgment and award dated 30.09.2011 passed in M.C.O.P.No.85 of 2008 on the file of the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (Sub Court), Perambalur, insofar as the same are against the appellant, and for enhancement of compensation.)

1. The 1st petitioner before the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Perambalur in M.A.C.T.O.P.No.85 of 2008 are the appellants before this Court seeking enhancement of the Award passed in the above claim petition.

2. The parties, for ease of understanding, are referred to in the same ranking as before the Tribunal.

3. The petitioners are the son and daughters of one Palaniammal, who had died in a road accident on 29.03.2006. The petitioners would submit that their mother who was aged 62 years at the time of the accident was an agricultural coolie, earning a monthly income of Rs.2,000/-. On the said date, when she was walking on the road in a West-East direction, the lorry belonging to the first respondent and insured with the second respondent, bearing Registration No.TN 30 K 7231, which was driven in a rash and negligent manner hit the deceased pedestri