How to say "hit-and-run" in Japanese

• ひき逃げひきにげ
  noun, suru verb, transitive verb, intransitive verbThe traffic sense: a driver who injures someone in an accident and then flees the scene. The word used in news reports and legal discussion of such cases.
  ひき逃にげの犯人はんにんは翌日よくじつ父親ちちおやに伴ともなわれて自首じしゅしてきました。↗

  The hit-and-run driver, accompanied by his father, came and turned himself in the next day.
• ヒットエンドラン
  nounThe baseball sense: the offensive tactic in which a base runner starts running and the batter tries to put the ball in play. A katakana loanword, heard in baseball commentary and tactical talk.

Use 「ひき逃げ」 for the traffic offense of a driver who injures someone and flees the scene, and 「ヒットエンドラン」 for the baseball play; the two never overlap, so the subject matter decides.

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• ひき逃げひきにげhit-and-run (causing personal injury)
• ヒットエンドランhit-and-run (play)