The council offered to switch the lights off out of respect but the brightness was helping the emergency crews so were left on for some time , but I think it is probably better they go off for a while as handwringers to one side that means it will be more difficult for any pap or onlooker to take clear photos of any body being removed and put it online, and they would do and that's awful for the families.

Such a terrible thing to happen, especially at this time of year , losing anyone is always awful but close to Christmas time which is meant to be happy and fun , when you have bought their presents which will never get opened it is just so much more sad. My thoughts go to all affected by this.

Yes those kind of reports are similar to Sky whose reputation for wanting to be 'first in' is well known and you have to take their 'news' reports with a pinch of salt.

For example the Sky News site is quoted;


only to then say later on....

I've just read an article in the Scottish Record. I can't believe how graphically they've described it, it's reduced me to tears. One witness has said the mother and baby in the pram had died, another witness has given details of seeing a pregnant woman being given cpr. Just heartbreaking.

Re Christmas lights, now I watch a lot of criminal minds, so may be waaaay off the mark here. But could they have kept them on to help with eye witness statements? A psychological memory trigger so to speak?

Ah, I meant before that i.e. whether it had been coming straight up from Argyle St or if it had just turned from Ingram St (in which case I can't see it building up all that much speed).

I seen that report but it could also possibly mean they were injured or nearly hit, I do hope the latter.

There is a twitter picture doing the rounds (Ross Loraine of Sunderland) who has been vile about the victims and it seems the police will be paying him a visit shortly (if they haven't already done so). One of the responses to his post was from a girl who says she was there today and had a woman die at her feet whilst she tried tending to her and her young daughter was standing shocked and lost looking beside her.....poor young girl

That must have been so awful for her as a witness no, your right it does seem appropriate especially in the immediate aftermath. The lights at this moment in time are better turned off.

Here, here, here, here, here, here and here, to show but a few...

I don't know how the road is at all but a truck of that weight/size would only need the slightest of inclines for it to gain considerable momentum just from free wheeling, but it was being driven at the time and it appears (still not confirmed) that the driver had a heart attack as witnesses described seeing him slumped over the wheel.

Even at 20mph that truck would be capable of doing the damage it's done.

Oh No! That poor child. How will she ever get over seeing that. My sympathies as well to all those people who have witnessed these horrific scenes.

Oh he's been named and shamed for a good few hours Maids.

His comment

So a bin lorry has crashed into 100 people in Glasgow

Probably the most trash it has picked up in one day is that

and poor lass

They wanted to switch them off early, but the police told them to leave them on to help in their inquiries.

At 9:30pm Glasgow City Council tweeted:

We're now switching off Christmas lights in #GeorgeSquare as a mark of respect. Police are content with this.
9:30 PM - 22 Dec 2014

Why would the police be paying them a visit? It's a joke, albeit a not very funny and a very poorly timed one, hardly something worth wasting police time over.

If anything it's ever so slightly uphill. For the sake of argument it's pretty much flat from GOMA to Queen Street Station.

Your definition of haranguing is a lot politer than mine, then.

There just aren't any words for that. Just a child, and life spoiled forever in a few seconds.

There has been a huge backlash against him on Twitter, some people have even managed to get hold of his address.

I don't condone this retaliation but I can't say I have much sympathy for what happens to him.

So if some idiot decides to take it up on themselves to hospitalise, or worse, this person over something as petty as posting an insensitive and poorly timed 'joke' on the internet you'll be OK with that?

He will be regretting his total idiocy now.

But he has no one to blame but himself the w****r.

I was thinking the same. It's why when I initially heard I'd assumed the accident had happened going from Cathedral Street down into George Square rather than this which is coming up Queen Street. I guess heart attack and foot jammed on the accelerator seems most likely given what we've heard so far. I kind of hope for the driver's sake that this is what happened because then at least he has no blame and it's just a tragic accident.

Did anyone else see the vile tweet from someone called Ross Loraine?
He said "That's the most rubbish that bin lorry has ever collected".

It's doing the rounds on Facebook and he's now deleted his twitter account.

Utter prick.


Edit - sorry, I see it's already been discussed. Still, what a hateful bastard. I hope he's thoroughly ashamed of himself.

They might be nipping over to make sure he's safe. You'd be surprised at what can happen from haphazard remarks on media.

This is where social media users really let themselves down big time. This is why every single man on the street is now either a 'pervert' or 'Paedo'.

The best sentence they can give this Twitter Twit (i would use another term but it's no printable), is to force him to stand in the city centre every Saturday for five years with a sign around his neck.

Northumbria Police are looking into it. The comment was exceptionally tasteless and, IMO, vile but surely it's not a police matter, ffs.

Crazy isn't it.

What a messed up world we live in.

Like I say, I don't condone it and I'd prefer it if that didn't happen but....meh.