A law enforcement agency responsible for enforcing laws that govern the use of motor vehicles on public roads.
there were no fatalities according to the state highway patrol
as modifier a California Highway Patrol officer
Example sentencesExamples
- A highway patrol cop has been convicted of dangerous driving and disqualified for three months after a botched pursuit.
- They need to contact the Mississippi Highway Patrol, the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, or the FBI.
- I must have been picked up by the highway patrol 50 times.
- By the time they set out for the narrator's home, the highway patrol has sealed off the area.
- The highway patrol is investigating a string of unexplained shootings on the freeways near Ontario.
- In this photo provided by the highway patrol, emergency workers respond to a fire on an electric car in Smyrna.
- The highway patrol are saying traffic is steady on the overseas highway.
- Yesterday, highway patrol police conducted 105 random breath tests, with three people returning positive tests.
- There is need to consider highway patrols even with the vehicles available.
- He was responding to the public's cry about the lack of highway patrol outside the urban areas.