To be honest, I don't have it in black and white that our government won't charge for accident-inflicted damage to public property, but a combination of knowing several people who've had crashes and working for local councils for years suggests it's all just absorbed as wear and tear.Nav wrote:I guess it changes country by country. I wasn't sure if these things are charged in the UK until CJ said not, although I know people who've taken out lamp posts and I don't recall them bitching about the bill.
Private property is, of course, an entirely different matter. Including, I would assume, property privately owned by the government, rather than public property that's merely administered, run, maintained (and in all other ways effectively owned) by the government.