Driver of people carrier from Milan unfortunately crushing foot (7)

'driver of people carrier' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'milan unfortunately crushing foot' is the wordplay.
'unfortunately' indicates an anagram (a bad or unfortunate spelling).
'crushing' indicates putting letters inside (inserted letters are crushed by others).
'foot' becomes 'ft' (synonyms).
'milan' with letters rearranged gives 'liman'.
'liman' going around 'ft' is 'LIFTMAN'.

'from' acts as a link.

Can you help me to learn more?