Well, public property such as lamp-posts are stationary objects,
and therefore, if a car crashed into them, someone's at fault. It
need not necessarily be the crash driver, he probably got to prove
that someone else is liable. I am just saying that the costs of
damage to public property is tremendously high. I don't think they
will waive the replacement charges for a 10-year old lamp-post, or
there is depreciation value for such items.
