Accident victim’s family gets over Rs 50 lakh as compensation

Tribune news service

Chandigarh, November 20

The Motor Accident Claims Tribunal here has directed an insurance company to pay Rs50,24,340 as compensation to the wife a two children of a man who had died in an accident in 2019.

The claimants filed the petition through advocate Thakur Kartar Singh under Section 166 of the Motor Vehicle Act, 1988, seeking compensation from the driver and owner of the vehicle that was allegedly involved in the accident and the insurance company on account of the death of a person in an accident on April 22, 2019.

In their petition, the claimants stated Ramjwari Sharma, a resident of Dadumajra, was coming from Yamunanagar to Chandigarh in a car. When the car reached a little short of the bus stand at Mauli village on the Yamunanagar-Panchkula road, the driver suddenly increased the speed of the car and started driving the car at a very high speed.

As the speed of the car was very high, the driver lost control of the car and the car hit the divider of the road, they claimed. Sharma and the car driver received serious injuries in the accident, they said, adding that Sharma later succumbed to his injuries.

The claimants said Sharma was 40 years old and was involved in wholesale and retail trade. He used to earn Rs40,000 per month, they said and sought Rs70 lakh as compensation from the respondents.

The driver of the car, meanwhile, denied charges and said the accident took place due to a mechanical error of the vehicle and he was not at fault.

The insurance company claimed that the driver of the car did not have the valid driving licence.

After hearing the arguments, the tribunal directed the insurance company to pay Rs50,24,340 to the claimants within a period of two months, along with interest of six per cent from the date of filing the petition.

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