Nigel Stepney 1958 – 2014, dies in car accident (Update)

UPDATE The 56-year-old was hit by a truck at 1.28 am this morning after stopping his van on the hard shoulder of the M20 motorway at Ashford.

A spokesman for Kent Police said: "For reasons yet to be established, the man appears to have entered the carriageway and was then in collision with an articulated goods vehicle. He was pronounced deceased at the scene."

05/02/14 Nigel Stepney, the former Ferrari mechanic at the heart of the 2007 "spy-gate" scandal, has died in a road accident, aged 56.

Stepney was sentenced in Italy to 20 months in prison after being found guilty of sabotage, industrial espionage and sporting fraud.

Stepney had leaked nearly 800 pages of confidential Ferrari information to McLaren ahead of the 2007 season.

He did not serve the sentence, but never worked in Formula 1 again.