Adjective modifier

• fatal: Welles, Mrs Eyewitness to the fatal hit-and-run that saw Karen accused of manslaughter.

Modifies a noun

• tactic: They used classic hit-and-run tactics against the Japanese who up to 1942, had only really experienced military success.

• accident: He was killed in a hit-and-run accident in the early hours of December 13, 1981, at the age of 45.

• driver: He was killed 20 years ago today on December 13, 1981, by a hit-and-run driver near his home in East London.

• incident: A local hit-and-run incident, adultery and a spate of burglaries lead inexorably to murder.

• attack: In fact, the Iraqi capital was already subject to rebel hit-and-run attacks almost daily.

• raid: Many of the men were also tasked with organizing underground resistance cells to carry out sabotage and hit-and-run raids.