Danger driver who left man for dead jailed

A speeding hit-and-run driver overtook a car waiting at a crossing and smashed into a pedestrian before leaving him for dead.

- by Nick Frame

Jake Syron was behind the wheel of a Range Rover when he went through the red light and hit the man, catapulting him 20 metres along the road.

The victim spent more than three months in hospital with severe injuries. Syron was jailed at Leeds Crown Court after admitting causing serious injury through dangerous driving.

It happened at the pedestrian crossing at Middleton Road, outside the Tipsy Cow pub in Morley, at around 8pm on October 21, 2023.