Jake Glover-Brown: M1 death crash driver left UK after hit-and-run Published image copyrightSouth Yorkshire Police image captionMr Glover-Brown died after being hit by a car on the M1 in October 2019 A driver who hit and killed a man as he attempted to walk across a motorway fled the country after the crash, an inquest has heard. Jake Glover-Brown, 25, was hit on the M1 near Barnsley in 2019. He "died instantaneously", Sheffield Coroners' Court heard, and driver Lukas Kandrac abandoned the vehicle and took a flight to Slovakia. When he returned to the UK he told police he had "panicked". He was later charged with failing to stop.