traffic stop

noun

plural traffic stops

: an instance of police stopping a driver (as for speeding or a broken taillight)

She was pulled over for a routine traffic stop.

an officer making a traffic stop

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The slaying happened one week after the funeral of Deputy Isaiah Cordero, 32, who was fatally shot Dec. 29, 2022, during a traffic stop in Jurupa Valley. —

Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025 It was discovered during a Dec. 30 traffic stop in Palatka, about a 105-mile drive north from Orlando. —

Mark Price, Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2025 Originally Published: January 4, 2025 at 1:11 PM EST Most Popular More in Uncategorized Another CT retirement community has gone solar, the latest in renewable energy trend Spider monkey found in Rolls-Royce during traffic stop in critical shape. —

Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 4 Jan. 2025 Unknown man, on March 30 A man died after a Gladstone police officer and two Clay County sheriff’s deputies shot at him during a traffic stop in the area of North Garfield Avenue and Northeast Englewood Road, in Kansas City. —

Andrea Klick, Kansas City Star, 3 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for traffic stop