Supreme Court of India
Nishan Singh & Ors. v. Oriental Insurance Company Ltd. through Regional Manager & Ors.
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For the reasons mentioned above, this appeal is partly allowed.
Judgment, page 10
From the headnote
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 – ss.166 and 140 – Fatal acciden t – Victim-deceased was travelling along with her husband-appellant no.1 in the car driven by PW-2 – The car dashed against the truck which was running ahead of it – R esulting in death of victim-deceased – Claim petition – Tribuna l held that accident occurred due to rash and negligent driving by the driver of the car and concluded that truck driver and the insu rer of the truck were not liable to pay any compensation – High Court u pheld the order of the Tribunal – Held: PW-2 admitted that the subject truck was running ahead of the
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