When a runaway driver piloting tons of hurtling steel refuses to heed police, a strip of hollow metal spikes is generally regarded as the best, last resort by law enforcers for stopping the ...

Next time you’re on the highway, check out your surroundings. Take a long look at those semis, tractor-trailers, and 18-wheelers in the adjacent lanes, and see if you spot any spikes sticking ...

Police officers who have been getting hurt putting out road spikes to stop fleeing drivers have had to wait seven years for ...

Police have backtracked on replacing their old road spikes - which have injured dozens of officers - despite testing new, safer spikes. But because so few tests on the new remote-control spikes ...