road-block

an obstruction placed across a road, especially of barricades or police cars, for halting or hindering traffic, as to facilitate the capture of a pursued car or inspection for safety violations.

an obstruction on a road, as a fallen tree or a pile of fallen rocks.

a hastily built barricade, as of barbed wire, erected across a road to hold up the advance of an enemy.

an action, condition, etc., that obstructs progress toward an objective: Nationalism is a roadblock to European unity.

to halt or obstruct with or as if with a roadblock.