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About time to read that there was no care!
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"That tree was 60 years old and structurally flawed," Mr Benton says.
He says one of the tree’s two stems fell a year ago and the remaining part was not maintained.
The fungal infection that ate the dead roots of the fallen part also attacked the roots of the standing tree, damaging its structure.
When the first stem fell, the other stem should have been properly maintained to make sure it was safe, he says.
The part that crushed Mr Connick’s car was 12 metres high and weighed around 10 tonnes.
"It’s not about trees falling over, it’s about a lack of sensible maintenance. Some alarm bells should have rung. It could have killed someone easily.
"A big tree that is healthy and sound is not going to fall over."
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4th June 2008, 10:56 PM
Onehunga Auckland Tree Failure Crushes Car 
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