New Delhi: Apply an emergency brake or closely apply a moving vehicle closely at your own risk as the Supreme Court has said that using a sudden brake in the middle of the road or not maintaining enough distance from an ongoing vehicle makes a person responsible for an accident if it happens.A bike, a car and a bus postponed the claim of a motor accident in an accident, in which the bike rider collided with a four wheeler and collided with a truck after falling as a result of 100% physical disability, a bench of Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia and Arvind Kumar found a mistake with all three, who were driving vehicles. The court said that the car driver was suddenly a mistake to apply a brake in the middle of the road and the biker also made a mistake as he was not keeping a distance safe from the car and the bus driver who was also hurt by negligence and one leg was disrupted.The court dismissed the petition of the car insurer, stating that the biker killed the car from behind and the car driver was not responsible. The owner of the car had said that he had a sudden brake because his wife was pregnant and at that time she had an opposite sensation, a justification that was rejected by the court.Investigating the role of all three drivers, the court stated that the biker, who was an engineering student and lost one leg, was also responsible for negligence, but to the limit of only 20% while the car driver and bus driver are responsible for negligence of 50% and 30% respectively. The tribunal excluded the car driver and determined the negligence of the biker and bus driver in a ratio of 20:80.The court gave a compensation of Rs 1.14 crore to the biker, but due to his role of his contributor in the accident, it cut by 20%. It said that since both aggressive vehicles (buses along the car) were insured at the time of the accident, the car driver and the bus driver’s negligence will be borne by the insurer.
