Lorry driver faces murder inquiry after driving over protesting holidaymaker

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/27/lorry-driver-italy-holidaymaker-death

A Romanian lorry driver has been arrested in Italy after driving over and killing an Italian holidaymaker who was lying in the road to stop him from leaving during an argument over a broken wing mirror.
The incident started at a service station near Bolzano, in northern Italy, in early yesterday as Moreno Mariani, 49, and his partner took a nap in their camper van before continuing north on holiday.
They were woken when Benjamin Bogdan, 31, a Romanian lorry driver resident in Spain, allegedly scratched the side of Mariani's van and snapped off a wing mirror while manoeuvring his lorry in the service station's car park.
Bogdan stopped but allegedly refused to give Mariani his insurance details and then drove off, chased by the Italian, who caught up when the lorry was forced to stop at a motorway toll station at Vipiteno, a few miles away. Confronted a second time, Bogdan and a Romanian passenger again reportedly refused to take responsibility for the incident.
Fearing Bogdan would cross the nearby border into Austria, leaving him with the bill for his broken mirror and scratches, Mariani lay down in the road in front of the lorry to block it, only for Bogdan to drive over him, killing him and dragging his body metres down the road before stopping, local police reported.
"After being arrested at the scene, Bogdan claimed he did not see Mariani stretched out in front of him, but witness accounts suggest this was a deliberate act," said one local police official. Bogdan is being held on suspicion of murder.
Mariani's partner, who witnessed his death, was treated for shock in hospital and later released.