Sentence examples for obstructing the highway from inspiring English sources

One of the offences is for obstructing the highway.

The Met also judged that protesters gathering peacefully on roads had been obstructing the highway.

Robert Edwards, from Glossop, has been charged with obstructing the highway and police.

A Metropolitan police spokesman said: "There have been 15 arrests for obstructing the highway and public order offences.

So far 21 people have been arrested at the anti-fracking camp, mostly for obstructing the highway or police.

Three were arrested in Baton Rouge for "obstructing the highway" and two others were briefly detained in Rochester, New York.

Although it is a criminal offence to obstruct the highway, there are previous cases in which the authority has instead applied for an injunction to stop the offending acts in the high court.

Once we got to the field, he pushed me away to join others who were being arrested for obstructing the police and the highway: 537 travellers were arrested that day, apparently the UK's largest mass arrest since the second world war.

Is it not absurd, is it not a disgrace to the inventive age we live in, to see a man obliged to employ, in order to get through the street, a great vehicle which fills your eyes with ugly sounds, splatters you with mud, and obstructs the highway?

I think they realised that they couldn't get us for obstructing the road since this is a private highway rather than a public one". .

Who is obstructing the process?