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unusual facts about hit and run


Hit and run

Otherwise, the driver commits an offence and is liable to a fine of 10000 Hong Kong dollars and to imprisonment for 12 months.


Stolen base

However, some of the more successful American League teams of recent memory, including the 2002 Anaheim Angels, the 2001 Seattle Mariners and the 2005 Chicago White Sox have experienced their success in part as a result of playing "small ball," advancing runners through means such as the stolen base and the related hit and run play.

Ten Tall Men

The experienced Kincaid tells the Lieutenant that their only chance is to release him to let him lead a series of guerilla hit and run attacks to delay the enemy for five days until the Regiment returns.

Tommy McCarthy

In his Historical Baseball Abstract, Sabermetrician Bill James makes the point that McCarthy was held in such high esteem because of his introduction of the "hit and run" play into the game.


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Baedeker Blitz

The German bombers suffered heavy losses for minimal damage inflicted, and the Axis' need for reinforcements in North Africa and Russian Front meant further operations were restricted to hit-and-run raids on coastal towns by a few Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter-bombers.

Baron Franz von der Trenck

Trenck earned most of his fame during the War of the Austrian Succession, as the leader and commander of a unit of pandurs, or paramilitary troops in the Austrian army which specialized in frontier warfare, guerrilla tactics and surprise hit-and-run actions, into which he recruited mostly Croatian mercenaries, experienced fighters from the Austro-Ottoman border.

Battle of Dandanaqan

During the march of Sultan Mas'ud's army to Sarakhs the Seljuq raiders harassed the Ghaznavid army with hit-and-run tactics.

Boxing Helena

After she is injured in a grievous hit-and-run motor vehicle accident in front of his home, he kidnaps and treats her in his house surreptitiously, amputating both of her legs.

Candy Lightner

On May 3, 1980, Lightner’s 13-year-old daughter, Cari, was killed by a hit-and-run drunk driver at Sunset and New York Avenues in Fair Oaks, California.

Clint Stanaway

While at Nine News in this role, Clint covered many significant news events including the Cardross road accident near Mildura, Victoria, where six young lives were lost in a tragic hit and run, Beaconsfield Mine collapse and dramatic Mine Rescue of two trapped miners, and the Nine Network's coverage of the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games.

Cylon Raider

Using highly effective hit-and-run, ambush and divide-and-conquer tactics, Scar repeatedly ambushed and destroyed Colonial viper patrols during mining operations in an asteroid field.

Heinz Norden

Heinz Norden (born London, 1905, died London, 1978 from injuries sustained in hit-and-run traffic accident) was an author, translator, tenant rights leader, and editor of Heute.

Julie M. J. Parisien

He was killed in a hit-and-run highway accident in December 1992, forced off the road by a drunk driver.

Lee Yong-Chan

On September 6, 2010, Lee was arrested in Apgujeong-dong, Seoul on drunk driving charges after the police caught him in hit-and-run crash.

San Gabriel Valley Transit Authority

The SGVTA was exposed as a criminal front organization in a well-covered hit-and-run case where two convicted criminals, Carl Freer and Stefan Eriksson, used its business cards to masquerade as police officers.

Scientology in the United States

Among these documents was a plan to frame Gabe Cazares, the mayor of the city of Clearwater, Florida, with a staged hit-and-run accident; plans to discredit the skeptical organization CSICOP by spreading rumors that it was a front for the CIA; and a project called "Operation Freakout," aimed at ruining the life of author Paulette Cooper, author of an early book critical of the movement, The Scandal of Scientology.