"Hit-and-Skip" or "Hit-and-Run" ?

[Michael]

>>> Help arrived in minutes, but Schippling's efforts were in vain.
>>> Terry Ware, 47, who lived several blocks away on Harvard Avenue,
>>> had died, the victim of an apparent hit-skip accident.

I've heard of skipping town -- I've even thought about doing
it myself on occasion -- but I've never heard "Hit-and-Skip"
used before ... Is this a mid-west thing, or what ?

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_stan
dard.xsl?/base/cuyahoga/9966582111382547.xml

best,
michael

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           michael hunter horlick
               michael at rfa.org
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