“…The approach has been applied to many crime types (such as shoplifting, money laundering and sexual offences -see Gilmour, 2014;LeClerc & Wortley, 2014;Chiu & Leclerc, 2016), where the necessary sequences for crime events and the dependencies necessary for events to occur have been identified. Although Price et al (2016) note that there is no agreed method or data source for producing a crime script, Socco and Kennedy (2008) usefully suggest that most crime events can be categorised into three distinct phases -precursors, transactions and aftermaths. Considering the potential complexity of a hit-andrun collision, a crime script approach seemed to have potential utility in developing an understanding of (a) the procedural or sequential requirements for collisions, (b) offender decision points and ultimately (c) preventative strategies.…”