Hit and ... miss

A news item in the press yesterday focused on hit and run accidents which seem to be on the increase in New South Wales. Bad enough that people don't stop to help someone they have just hit with their motor vehicle, but it's harder that the perpetrators of these crimes may never be found. As a spokesperson for the Crash Investigation Unit said: "Incidents become difficult to solve if the offender did not come forward within 48 hours." The item gave no indication of other attempts made to identify the offenders. Granted the fragments of glass left at the scene in US crime shows which lead to the successful incarceration of the offender are the stuff of fiction - but it seems that the indication of the existence of some investigation protocol (besides waiting for someone to turn themselves in) could be a useful deterrent.