Watch out for falling street lights, Wellington tells residents

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New Zealand city council says ‘you would be seriously injured or killed’ by lamps weighing up to 15kg, like a microwave or bulk sack of rice

The council was investigating the problem, MacLean said, and believed there had been a “bad batch” of lamps with degraded fixings.

The council believed at this stage that only about 100 of the city’s 17,000 lamp-posts were likely affected, but it did not know which ones, MacLean said, and had not launched a city-wide assessment of all the lamp-posts.

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