Sentence examples for spike strip from inspiring English sources

And how terrifying, when you scorch over the brow of a hill, only to hit a spike strip or a damaged car resting across your path.

Last April, in an attempt to shorten the length of pursuits, Bratton adopted C.H.P.'s spike strip and its Pursuit Intervention Technique (PIT).

One technology that produces highly cinematic results, particularly at night, is the spike strip — a ribbon of steel spikes thrown in the path of the getaway vehicle, causing its tires to deflate.

Not long afterward, I found dad at his tool bench in the garage making a spike strip – about a dozen screws drilled through an old piece of plywood, sticking point-up.

Then 25 miles later, the road narrowed to one lane, and a waiting Nevada Highway Patrol trooper slid out his spike strip to greater effect.

Spike strip tosses were whiffed.

They had laid down orange traffic cones and tyre-puncture spike strips.

The police said Mr. Trim later sped toward state troopers who had put down spike strips to stop his truck.

At Milepost 161, a tribal policeman from the Tohono O'odham reservation waited with a set of spike strips.

The cops can call in a helicopter to lay spike strips in front of the leading racers, or press down to drop spikes directly behind their car.

Racers, meanwhile, get to drop spike strips and EMP blasts, but can also call on a turbo boost option and a jammer that blocks police communications.