What does “pull over” mean in English?

Pull over means to drive to the side of the road and stop. You can do it yourself (“Let’s pull over here”) or the police can do it to you: they “pull you over” when they want to talk to the driver. It is one of the most common phrasal verbs on English roads, and you hear it in every American police movie.

In this story the speaker says “before we knew it, the police was right in front of us, pulling us over.” Notice the pronoun in the middle: pull us over, pull me over, pull him over. Two related words are useful: a traffic stop is the event, and a ticket is the paper you may get afterwards. The story also mentions a bribe, meaning money given to an official to avoid trouble.