Today, the trailer park looked like a scrap heap as the sun danced off great pyramids of mangled metal and broken glass.

Nevertheless, he was still haunted by the image of his dad's body in the clutch of mangled metal.

Modelling work had indicated perhaps 500kg of mangled metal could have survived to the surface, spread over a path some 800km long.

Louis could be trapped in mangled metal and burning fuel.

He came upon the vans parked in front of the mangled metal that had formerly been iron gates.

Dowe even kept his sense of humor amid the mangled metal.

She stopped, snapping the mangled metal in her fingers.

"The bus was a mess of mangled metal," he said.

A heart wasn't as easily healed as mangled metal, but it could be done.

The site of Monday's crash was filled with mangled metal, charred hulks and shattered glass.