Tom/Toni heard the radio call between Herb and Pete on the police radio in the car he/she had stolen and decided to take a different rout further away from the incident and around Vandormount.
There were three ways through Vandormount but Tom took the fourth, which went back along the river and up into the hills.
Eventually Tom would have made it but the sun was just coming up and the squad car looked a little suspicious being driven by a buxom blonde woman.
Tom decided to pull over behind some brush and hike it a ways.