The Thane Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) has awarded a compensation of Rs 12.46 lakh to the family members of a man, who died in a road accident in 2015. In the order issued recently, MACT member R N Rokade directed Ganapati Carrying Corporation Ltd, a road transportation and surface logistics firm, and SBI General Insurance to make the payment jointly to the claimants with eight per cent interest from the date of the filing of the claim.

The claimants told the tribunal that the deceased, Vijay Gosavi (37), worked as a marketing manager with a trading company. On December 2, 2015, he was going to Surat from Mumbai in a car, when a trailer belonging to the road transportation firm, suddenly took a U-turn at Wada Kadkona on Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway, due to which his vehicle hit it and he died on the spot.