Sentence examples for vehicles strike from inspiring English sources

While curbs main functions are to separate the road from roadside, control vehicle rights-of-way, and channel water runoff; their use is discouraged by AASHTO from being installed on high-speed roadways due to the disruptive behavior caused when vehicles strike them.

From the sidelines we watched government vehicles strike innocent pedestrians, and vigilantes riding camels whip demonstrators, thanks to citizen journalists reporting live from Tahrir Square.

Seven of the deaths occurred after Russian vehicles struck mines; five soldiers died in ambushes or firefights with rebels.

Earlier, NATO had issued a cautious statement, saying only that two vehicles struck by alliance jets were "conducting military operations and presented a clear threat to civilians".

But "residual heavy metal toxicity in armored vehicles struck by D.U. perpetrators could pose possible health risks for those that access those vehicles," it said.

This summer, military dispatches from Chechnya have reported almost daily incidents in which Russian armored personnel carriers and other troop transports and vehicles struck mines.

This month, the British newspaper The Guardian ran an interactive map of American drone strikes, pinpointing the locations in Pakistan where missiles from the unmanned aerial vehicles struck suspected terrorists.

The candidate, Abdul Wahid Khurasani, said that the convoy of six vehicles struck by two NATO rockets was part of his campaign team and that the vehicles were draped with campaign posters.

The Center for Auto Safety has asked Sergio Marchionne, the chief executive of Chrysler Group, to recall millions of Jeep Grand Cherokees from the 1993 2004 model years because vehicles struck from behind have been susceptible to fires.

Cases of high-sided vehicles striking low bridges is a large problem in many countries, especially the UK.

We do not know the speed of the vehicles that struck pedestrians, so while the average speed was lower, the vehicles striking pedestrians may have been traveling at higher than average speeds.