GARY COLEMAN HITS FAN WITH TRUCK: Two sides offer different accounts of incident outside Utah bowling alley.

*A nice night at the bowling alley for Gary Coleman and his wife ended up with the actor nearly running over a fan with his truck.

Utah's ABC 4 News reports that the incident took place at South County Bowling Lanes in Payson, where Coleman is a regular patron. The actor and his wife were finishing their game when 24-year-old fan Colt Rushton asked to take a picture of him with his cell phone, according to Coleman's bodyguard, who didn't want to be identified.

When the former "Diff'rent Strokes" star said no, Rushton got aggressive, said the bodyguard.

"He asked the kid not to take pictures. Why can't he be an adult and respect his [Coleman's] privacy," said his bodyguard, adding that the harassment continued outside as Coleman and his wife tried to leave. "This kid would not back off--he would not back off."

Police say Coleman's truck struck Rushton and hit a car that had pulled up behind Coleman's truck. The bodyguard says Rushton ran to the back of Coleman's pickup as the actor was backing out. "The kid was way careless. He was reckless. Who runs out on somebody that's turning?"

Rushton, meanwhile, says Coleman's wife took his cell phone, and Coleman threw several punches at him before getting behind the wheel of his truck. Rushton says he was trying to get his cell phone from Coleman when the actor put his truck in gear and struck Rushton, knocking him to the ground.

"He did not intentionally hit this kid," argued Coleman's bodyguard, "[Coleman] was just trying to get out of here."

Police say no one has been arrested or cited and say there's some indication alcohol was a factor.