'Bout 15 years ago a friend of mine hit a patch of ice on I-75 just before the GA/TN line and hit a light pole. His car was totalled. Several months later he got a bill from the State of Tennessee for the light pole.....
When we lived in Japan my wife went off the road and took out a few bushes in a hedge. We had to pay $300-400 for them. The pisser was a few months later, they dug up the entire hedge to widen the road (and no, the plants my wife wrecked hadn’t been replaced).