Umar Akbar and his female passenger both died after the BMW they were travelling in crashed into a tree on the M1 motorway in South Yorkshire on the evening of November 12 View 2 Images Umar was in his twenties at the time of his death (Image: Facebook)

A man who died alongside his passenger in a horror smash on the M1 has been named and pictured for the first time. Umar Akbar has been locally identified as one of two people who tragically lost their lives in a devastating collision with a tree whilst driving a BMW on the motorway. ‌

South Yorkshire Police responded to reports on the M1 southbound between Junction 37 for Barnsley and Junction 36 at Tankersley at 11.36pm on Wednesday, November 12. At the scene, a dark coloured BMW Saloon had been travelling along the mot

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