Here we go again FFS. Global News at 6 was airing a story about a hit and run accident where the driver chose to "drive away" rather than deal with what happened. Except Global said the driver "fled the scene." PEOPLE, are y'all that lazy that you're going direct from press release to the 6 o'clock news???
"Fled on foot" "fled the scene", etc is "cop-speak". One who fails to hang around to deal with authorities at the scene of a hit and run "DROVE AWAY" or "DROVE OFF". In normal everyday terms, if you saw someone take the last donut from the box in the coffee room at work would you say Ralph "fled" with the last one or would you say Ralph "walked off" with the last one. For someone who spent almost 2 decades reporting and doing his share of rewrites from press releases and being warned NEVER to use cop-speak, it enough to make me wanna
the newsreader.