On 4 January 1977, Montoneros guerrillas shot and killed Private Guillermo Félix Dimitri of the 10th Mechanized Infantry Brigade on a drive-by shooting while he was on roadblock duty outside the Chrysler factory in the San Justo suburb of Buenos Aires.

During this time, an American Marine got lost in the former French quarter of Panama City, ran a roadblock, and was killed by Panamanian Police ( who were then a part of the Panamanian Military ).

On 18 August 1977, Biko was arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967 and interrogated by officers of the Port Elizabeth security police including Harold Snyman and Gideon Nieuwoudt.

She was a passenger in a car that raised the suspicions of German troops at an unexpected roadblock that had been set up to find Sturmbannführer Helmut Kämpfe of the Das Reich Division, who had been captured by the local resistance.

* 1 April: A 19-year-old police volunteer was killed in Jerusalem, when a Palestinian suicide bomber driving toward the city center blew himself up after being stopped at a roadblock.

* The Dome was a location for the 2005 American CBS television series The Amazing Race 7 ( Episode 10 ), for a roadblock where the teams had to drive a double-decker bus around the car park

A bushfire in the park killed 3 men after a roadblock was lifted on Great Eastern Highway in Coolgardie on 30 December 2007 after a long queue of vehicles were waiting for the highway to open after being closed for most of the day.

Guéï was killed when his car refused to stop at a roadblock in downtown Abidjan.

A mobile police roadblock slowed traffic sufficiently to leave a long section of carriageway empty while the scene was filmed.

In the Donovan case, the suspect lost control of his motorcycle and became airborne, crashing into the officer's vehicle, which was parked as part of an intercepting roadblock.

The UN convoy which was taking Turajlić to Sarajevo was stopped by Serb soldiers at a roadblock a few kilometers from the airport.

The roadblock dates back to the Carnegie era " robber barons " when the concept of " anti-trust " was born.

On March 8, 2001, an ETA suspect was arrested at a local roadblock.

On 26 February, a T26E3 named Fireball was knocked out in an ambush at Elsdorf while overwatching a roadblock.

Contributing to the demise was the Medellín Cartels ' Rodriguez Gacha, who attempted to move in on the New York City market, previously ceded to the Cali Cartel, and the 1986 arrest of Jorge Ochoa at a police roadblock, an arrest the Medellín Cartel believed was suspicious and which they attributed partly to the Cali Cartel.

At a roadblock beside the town of Castellaneta, Hopkinson was hit by a burst of German machine gun fire while observing the 10th Parachute Battalion's attack.

According to Twiss, the roadblock was illegal ; however, the police department lacked the money and manpower to do more to interdict bootlegging from Whiteclay to the reservation.

However, after running behind the planned timetable, their presence was discovered after a clash at a roadblock as dawn broke.

: " how the authorities refused requests from Bentalha's residents for arms with which to defend themselves ; how the security forces treated the local Islamist groups with a degree of indulgence that the civilian populations found incomprehensible ; how, on the night of the massacre, most of the members of the local ' patriot ' militia had been sent away for some relaxation in a coastal resort on the orders of the local army commander ; how, during the massacre itself, the security forces were stationed on the edge of Bentalha and were aware of what was going on ; how the neighbourhood of Haï El-Djilali, where Yous himself lived and which was specifically targeted by the attack, was repeatedly illuminated by huge projectors recently installed in a nearby field by the police, as if to light the attackers ' way ; how a military helicopter hovered over the scene throughout much of the six hours that the massacre lasted ; how troops manning the roadblock at the entrance to Bentalha stopped civilians from nearby villages from coming to the rescue and even reportedly shot dead a policeman who tried to do his duty in this respect ; and how the assailants were allowed to stroll out of Bentalha and escape down the main road south, the security forces making no attempt to intercept them, although well placed to do so.

On June 20, 1979, Stewart was traveling in a press van in the eastern slums of the capital city of Managua with his camera and sound crew when they were stopped at a roadblock run by the Nicaraguan Guardia ( lit.

The Americans received their first reinforcements on 18 December when 350 men from the Australian 2 / 7th Cavalry Regiment fought their way through to the roadblock.

The story was based on two actual events: the disgraced career of a San Diego police officer and a high-speed pursuit of a man who refused to stop and was killed when he crashed into a police roadblock.

* 25 January – guerrillas wound a policeman when they open fire at a police roadblock set up at Ugie

Justice Sears would have held an alcohol-check roadblock an unconstitutional search / seizure because, in her view, the particular roadblock allowed individual officers too much discretion -- “ field officers had the discretion to control the time, the place, and the duration of the road block .” At the same time that she argued on the grounds that officers were given too much discretion, she noted that the officers in the case were required by supervisors ’ policy to stop every car when they put the road block into effect.

J. C. Agajanian Jr., who plays a detective in the roadblock sequence at Torrance Mazda Agency, was almost killed when the stunt with " Eleanor " went wrong and the Mustang slammed into his unmarked police car, which he was standing behind.

However when Isitt ( 1978 ) 67 Cr App R 44 drove away from a collision and evaded a police roadblock in a dissociative state, the defence was not successful.

Officer Carpenter saved Westlake's life by knocking her to the ground when the International Transtar 4300 tractor Dekker was driving smashed through the Metropol roadblock, only to die when he was shot by Dekker's second-in-command, Lee Cyrus ( played by Dean Wray ).

The City of Gretna on the West Bank of the Mississippi River received considerable press coverage when, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina ( late August 2005 ), displaced and dehydrated survivors who attempted to escape from New Orleans by walking over the Crescent City Connection bridge over the Mississippi River were turned back at gunpoint by City of Gretna Police, along with Crescent City Connection Police and Jefferson Parish Sheriff's deputies, who set up a roadblock on the bridge in the days following the hurricane.

The DeFranco Family's active career reached a roadblock when a rock version of their tune " Write Me a Letter " failed to generate much attention and reached no higher than the 104th slot on the charts.

Transfer student A. C. Slater initially enters the scene as a Zack's nemesis and roadblock to lady-love Kelly Kapowski, though the two eventually work their way up to best buds.

One possible roadblock to the development of biophysics as an established field is that soft condensed matter may be diverging into two distinct directions: a physical chemistry approach and a complex systems approach.

The Police service was heavily criticised by the Merseyside coroner for its handling of a pursuit in which two 14 year old boys were killed in 2003 after crashing a stolen car into a roadblock set up by Mersey Tunnels officers.

Although police were at a loss to explain Ansell's motive ( he could have easily escaped the roadblock had he chosen to ), it was later determined that Ansell had been raving about Freemasons prior to his death ; he was distraught, apparently convinced that Freemasons had kidnapped his two sons and were now stalking him.

On Sunday morning, California police, who have been tracking Kowalski's movements through electronic road sensors, set up a roadblock with two bulldozers in the small town of Cisco, where Kowalski will be passing.

Some accounts claim that the 1 / 14th Punjabis knocked out two light Japanese tanks at a roadblock.

The two families would race back and forth between the last roadblock of the race ( a map of North and Central America ) and a set of 12 clueboxes, each of which contained an icon, representing something the families did on the race.

* At a police roadblock near East London, two guerrillas and a policeman are killed in a shootout

* 2 August – At a roadblock near Mount Ruth, two guerrillas and a policeman is killed

In regards to the concept of " pay-for-play ," ( see section above, " Debate over paying athletes ") Title IX is generally seen as a substantial roadblock, only because of the differences between big-time men ’ s sports ( football / men's basketball ) and women's sports, but also because of the gap between those " big two " sports ' profit-producing programs and virtually all other collegiate sports, both male and female.

As they rush to the prison, the two are stopped by a roadblock and wind up in a shootout with the police.

According to the arrest report, Allen approached a police roadblock and instead of following the detour, he kept driving toward a police car, stopping only two feet from it.