What does 扔下 mean in 还有的人把车扔下不管? In the following sentence:


  据一位遭遇拥堵的人介绍说，隧道里一小时只能行进几百米，也去不了厕所，有的人下车走向紧急出口，还有的人把车扔下不管。


扔 means "throw" or "hurl", but "throwing a car away" doesn't make sense. From the context, I feel it means people get out of the car and push it from the back of the car.

My questions:


Is this assumption correct?
If that is true, why doesn't an author write a clearer way, such as:



  还有的人把车推下不管。
It is not. "扔" here means something like "discard" or "abandon". They are now suffering from a (terrible) traffic jam, not a faulty engine, so they don't need to push the car anyway.

It means that the people got so impatient that that left the car where they were and walked away.