Funnily enough a few years back I was en vacance in France and met someone through friends we was with him on that fateful night in Portugal and what you have said describes what happened.
I remember him at Highbury when we beat Wednesday and he was in Shoot magazine and also towing his car...
He died a while back, around 20 years or so ago in Portugal on a surfing holiday. He was run over as well, I met one of the other two that was with him on that fateful night a couple of years ago.