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No breach of statutory duty for defective street furniture

A boy was walking with his mother and decided to leap-frog a bollard which was one of a number installed by the defendant highway authority to protect pedestrians from traffic and to control parking on the pavement. The bollard was not secure within its concrete base and, as he put his weight on it, it moved, causing him to fall and hurt himself.

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