Device or weapon used to impede or stop the movement of wheeled vehicles by puncturing their tires.
1Police used a spike strip to stop a wanted car during a pursuit in Wellington overnight.
2You're undoubtedly familiar with the spike strip, the tire-piercing steel nails that stop baddies in their tracks.
3Just as she made out the traffic spike strip lying across the underpass, the back window exploded.
4Eventually, one of the Zapata vehicles ran over a spike strip in the road near a guard house under the control of the US Marines.
5But it's still unmistakably The Bill, and maybe PC BBC is throwing its spike strip out over the road long after that one got away.
6He also threw out " spike strips" to block anyone from reaching him, Piper said.
7An automated Bluetooth-enabled 911 call might also alert the authorities who could put down spike strips or close off the road.
8Officers used spike strips to puncture the vehicle's tires, which came a halt on Interstate 635, the main highway circling the Dallas region.
9The NightHawk is simpler and similar to the spike strips of yore, but doesn't need a boy in blue to set it off.
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