and the vehicle and its driver were eventually traced harpal addedin another case of hit and run in farukhnagar the only clue the cops had was a piece of broken headlight at the accident spot they deduced it belonged to a truck all police checkposts in the vicinity were alerted the vehicle with a broken headlight was spotted near a toll plaza on kmp expressway two and half hours from the accident spotinvestigations in hitandrun cases also involve filling up an exhaustive form which includes the most minute details of an accident spot officers in the team need to note down details such as the position of the vehicle during the accident position of the victim the lane on which the crash took place the width of the road the impact on traffic and other circumstantial evidence some of this evidence becomes key to facilitating compensation for the victims family the investigating officer is required to submit all these details in court on the basis of these compensation is awarded there have been many cases where the victims families have not been able to get compensation because of the lack of such minute details said singlaits not just catching the accused ensuring the affected families get compensation is also part of our job for that we need to record each and every detail even the ones that may seem unimportant said the dcp