India, June 30 -- Fourteen years after a devastating accident left a school teacher with life-altering facial injuries, the Bombay High Court has enhanced the compensation awarded to her, observing that the disfigurement she suffered may have been one of the reasons her marriage ended in divorce.

The woman, then 29, was driving to the school where she taught near the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) on the morning of August 8, 2012, at around 7.15am, when a speeding ambulance coming from the opposite direction made a sudden, rash U-turn and rammed into her car. The collision left her with severe facial injuries that altered the course of her life. While the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) had awarded her Rs.9.94 lakh as ...