A pair of Florida State Seminole football players were involved in a hit-and-run last month, but somehow managed to each come away with a traffic ticket.

According to a report from the New York Times, P.J. Williams was behind the wheel of a car early in the morning of Oct. 5 and Ronald Darby was one of two passengers. After Williams made a left turn into the path of an oncoming SUV, he Darby and the third passenger fled the scene, which violates a law.

They returned about 30 minutes later and the Tallahassee Police contacted the FSU Police and the athletic department. The police originally determined the incident was a hit-and-run, but later issued Williams and Darby traffic tickets.

The Times also learned that police did not test Williams for alcohol consumption, nor is there evidence they even asked if he had been drinking or why he left the scene for 30 minutes. The Seminoles were coming off a 43-3 win at home against Wake Forest and the accident occurred at 2:37 a.m.

The Times produced a side-by-side comparison to a similar hit-and-run that took place in the same area and the same month.

The police also reportedly did not include in their report that Ian Keith, the driver of the oncoming car with the right of way, said his airbag deployed, cutting and bruising his hands. Both cars were totaled, so understating damage to Keith's car could have been part of Williams and Darby's lessened penalty.

Even though the crash was not on FSU's campus, the school sent two of their own officers to the scene. The school later said their presence was so insignificant that it was not worth recording.

"Two-thirty in the morning, people fleeing on foot - at the very least you've got to charge them with hit and run," Elijah Stiers, a Miami lawyer who was integral to the state toughening its hit-and-run laws, told the Times. "You don't get out of it just because you come back to the scene."

Keith said one of the two football players started talking to him, apologizing for the accident and apparently tried to explain why they ran. Keith told the Times the player was "sort of rambling" and said he and his teammate "had a lot on the line." All of a sudden, the players' female companion told the one speaking to Keith to stop talking.

"She said to him, 'Be quiet, you sound like you've been drinking,'" Keith said. "I remember that very clearly because it surprised me that she would say it. But the way he was speaking, I definitely had suspicions about drinking."