roadroller

(ˈrəʊdˌrəʊlə)

(Automotive Engineering) a motor vehicle with heavy rollers for compressing road surfaces during roadmaking

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roadroller

[ˈrəʊdˌrəʊləʳ] n → rullo compressore

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A CALDERDALE firm has been fined PS70,000 after one of its employees was lucky to escape death in an accident involving a two-and-a-half-tonne roadroller machine.

Firm fined PS70k after worker trapped under road roller

Ras Al Khaimah: The case of the roadroller driver who ran over his colleague by mistake while he slept has been transferred to the Ras Al Khaimah Traffic Prosecution, a police source confirmed.

The Asian worker was crushed to death by the roadroller as he was sleeping in its shade during his afternoon break on Sunday.

Man crushed under roadroller in Ras Al Khaimah

While the general feeling among residents is that the focus should primarily be on protecting the lives of workers, one resident said there is also a need to explore if a head cover can be provided in the rear of a vehicle to protect the garbage collectors from extreme weather conditions (as in a roadroller).

Garbage collection raises fears over workers' safety

"Yet, when Lalu threatens to run a roadroller over Varun, he is not charged under the same law, though we understand a first information report has been filed against him."

On Monday, Lalu is reported to have said at a rally in the Muslim-dominated town of Kishanganj, in Bihar, that had he been the home minister, he would have crushed Varun Gandhi with a roadroller for his anti-Muslim remarks.