Glasgow bin lorry tragedy 10 years on
Six people were killed and fifteen others injured when the vehicle careered off the road.
A former senior police officer is telling us he is reminded of the bin lorry tragedy in Glasgow where six people were killed and fifteen injured every time he walks through George Square.
It is ten years to the day since Harry Clarke lost control of a city council vehicle on Queen Street, careering on to the pavement before crashing outside the Millennium Hotel.
"It was a scene of utter devastation"
Darren Faulds was an inspector in road policing on the day of the crash and was on the scene within 15 minutes.
He told Downtown Radio: "People were panicking, running about and didn't know what to do.
"Many officers and emergency service workers were also arriving and some of my younger colleagues needed a bit of direction because they hadn't dealt with anything on this scale before.
"It was a scene of utter devastation like you would see in the films."
The six people who died were a family of three from Dumbarton (18-year-old Erin McQuade and her grandparents, Jack and Lorraine Sweeney).
Two Glaswegian women, 29-year-old Stephenie Tait and 51-year-old Jacqueline Morton; and 52-year-old Gillian Ewing, originally from Edinburgh.
Greatest Hits Radio's Cat Harvey was performing in pantomime at the Pavilion Theatre on the night of the tragedy.
The cast and production team held a meeting and decided the show would go on because there were 1200 people coming.
"I've never felt raw emotion like it"
She said: "We addressed the audience at the end of the show and thanked them for coming to see us on a very difficult night for Glasgow.
"At that point, it seemed like every single person in the theatre got up to their feet in slow motion and clapped.
"This wasn't a standing ovation for us at all, the applause was for Glasgow, the emergency services and those affected.
"I caught eyes with a big man in the second row who had tears streaming down his face and to this day, I've never felt raw emotion like it, not even just in the theatre but in life."
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