Editing Traffic break (section)

== Rolling roadblock ==
During times of high congestion, risky driving, or dangerous road conditions, law enforcement may institute so-called "rolling roadblocks," where official vehicles line up across the road and drive at a set speed. Since anyone attempting to pass them would be doing so on the shoulder and thereby garnering a ticket from the officer, traffic speeds are kept at the desired level.<ref name="CSMonitor">{{cite news|title=No more 'pedal to the metal' in states with 'rolling roadblocks'|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/1985/0710/aroll.html|publisher=Christian Science Monitor|access-date=14 January 2015}}</ref>

Rolling roadblocks have also been used by motorists as a form of protest, for example during the [[fuel protests in the United Kingdom]],<ref>{{Cite web|date=2000-09-11|title=Fuel crisis looms as pickets hit depots|url=http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/sep/11/oil.business|access-date=2021-10-14|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref> or in 2019 by French farmers in tractors.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Kennedy|first=Rachael|date=2019-11-27|title=French farmers in rolling tractor roadblock against 'agri-bashing'|url=https://www.euronews.com/2019/11/27/watch-live-french-farmers-stage-rolling-tractor-roadblock-to-protest-against-agri-bashing|access-date=2021-10-14|website=euronews|language=en}}</ref>