Thomas hit a piece of metal in the road and suffered internal bleeding after falling on his handlebars during training in Sydney, Australia.

BBC: Geraint Thomas (courtesy of Britishcycling.org.uk)

Work is due to start on Monday to replace nearly two miles of metal fence along Narborough Road South with a new barrier made from recycled plastic.

BBC: Busy road into Leicester to get ?1.5m make-over

Part of the road in Hermitage Way, Wooton, features metal teeth in a pit designed to stop cars using the road as a rat-run to the A45 dual carriageway.

BBC: Northampton rat-run 'car trap' ignored by drivers

The door and ground floor windows of the house in Leyton Road have been covered with metal shutters.

BBC: Neglect charge over girl's death

No, I'm not hurtling down the road in a 2-ton metal hulk on a highway where I'm separated from equally speedy oncoming vehicles by just a few feet.

CNN: Judge rules using smartphone maps while driving illegal

Jacob Marx, 27, was hit on the head by the metal sign from a William Hill betting shop in Camden Road, Camden Town, on Monday evening.

BBC: Camden shop sign death: Tribute to 'wonderful' brother

His co-accused Nicole Kane, 18, also of Croft Road, Hawick, denied stealing a quantity of metal from the North Bridge Street property.

BBC: Hawick town hall

You have to enter Main Street on foot because the road is littered with knee-high chunks of concrete, shards of metal and glass.

NPR: Dip in Violence Lets Bint Jbail Residents Regroup

My car smashed into a metal gate and flipped through the air, causing a car on the other side of the road to accelerate to avoid me 'landing' on them.

BBC: York & North Yorkshire - Helicopter heroes saved my life