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Old 22-12-2014, 16:37
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the drivers still alive.
According to some people on this thread, he must be a terrorist, hell bent on bringing death to Christmas shoppers. Just a tragic accident.
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Old 22-12-2014, 16:37
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If it is a heart attack I think we'll need to have a think about certain people being allowed to drive on our roads.

Anyone with a heart condition or who is overweight could be at danger of being banned for the safety of others.
You do realise that people who are not overweight and have no history of heart problems can have heart attacks too. People can also have strokes with no warning or an unknown aneurysm may rupture. Brain haemorrhages can happen to young people with no warning signs. The only way to stop people at risk from driving is for every driver to have a full medical every year including heart tests, MRI scans, etc, etc.
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Old 22-12-2014, 16:37
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omg how awful those poor people, how sad and shocking.
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Old 22-12-2014, 16:38
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Sorry, but as a Glaswegian I can tell you the distance between the Museum of Modern Art and the Station is not that far.
I agree, and it's plain shop fronts between them, no pillars to stop the lorry really.
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Old 22-12-2014, 16:39
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This is truly awful sympathies to all involved

It's the busiest time of year and right outside the train station too, a very busy crossing. There are bin lorries all the time and pedestrians are used to them around and coming up behind them, you normally wouldn't be concerned at all.
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Old 22-12-2014, 16:39
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Go on google maps and look how far it went.
A bus just passed my house advertising Daz on the back of it, does that mean the bud company will do my washing ?
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Old 22-12-2014, 16:41
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And bus drivers, and lorry drivers etc
Or pretty much everyone who spends most of their working day sat down.
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Old 22-12-2014, 16:41
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New reports are saying that the driver was "slumped over the wheel" before the lorry crashed.
Everything about this tragedy is just heartbreaking
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Old 22-12-2014, 16:43
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According to some people on this thread, he must be a terrorist, hell bent on bringing death to Christmas shoppers. Just a tragic accident.
I agree could be just a normal person, who will forever be haunted by having to live with this even though it is a tragic accident, I feel for him and his family as well as the people who died and their families, all their lives irrevocably altered.
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Old 22-12-2014, 16:43
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something similar happened in the town in ireland i grew up in, a guy driving a van had a heart attack and killed a pedestrian, not on this scale tho. what can you say, these things happen. my thoughts are with those who witnessed this terrible event and the families of those affected. as the bible says in ecclesiastes 9:11: ''I returned to see under the sun that the swift do not have the race, nor the mighty ones the battle, nor do the wise also have the food, nor do the understanding ones also have the riches, nor do even those having knowledge have the favor. Because time and unforeseen occurrence befall them all.'' Sometimes you are just in the wrong place at the wrong time...
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Old 22-12-2014, 16:43
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I was there last night before I went over to edinburgh. There is a lot of my work colleagues who were there as they were working at George square.

It's horrifying and that corner is busy anyways never mind at Christmas.
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Old 22-12-2014, 16:43
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According to the BBC website the police are treating it as a traffic accident and do not suspect anything sinister. There are also reports of people seeing the driver slumped over the wheel of the vehicle.
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Old 22-12-2014, 16:44
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You do realise that people who are not overweight and have no history of heart problems can have heart attacks too. People can also have strokes with no warning or an unknown aneurysm may rupture. Brain haemorrhages can happen to young people with no warning signs. The only way to stop people at risk from driving is for every driver to have a full medical every year including heart tests, MRI scans, etc, etc.
Of course I realise that.

Healthy people having heart attack are very very rare, fat people and those with heart conditions having heart attacks is not that rare.

You do realise that the fat and those with heart conditions are already banned from a large numbers of jobs due to the risk that they pose to the safety of themselves and others.
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Old 22-12-2014, 16:45
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It's possible that people may have initially assumed it was some sort of act of terror, particularly after what happened in Dijon just yesterday.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ench-city.html
That's the first I've heard of what happened yesterday in Dijon.
The poster calling someone an idiot for speculation about a connection is a tad harsh.
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Old 22-12-2014, 16:47
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New reports are saying that the driver was "slumped over the wheel" before the lorry crashed.
Everything about this tragedy is just heartbreaking
There was a previous fatal incident on Hanover St, round the corner from George Sq, a few years ago where a driver blacked out and ploughed into two pedestrIans. They subsequently erected barriers along that stretch of pavement.

Maybe they need to think about pedestrianising the whole of George Square, as part of proposed plans to redesign the area. And have bin lorries doing the rounds in very early hours when the streets are deserted.
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Old 22-12-2014, 16:48
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According to some people on this thread, he must be a terrorist, hell bent on bringing death to Christmas shoppers. Just a tragic accident.
Who has said that?
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Old 22-12-2014, 16:48
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We'll soon see who's right.
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Old 22-12-2014, 16:48
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Of course I realise that.

Healthy people having heart attack are very very rare, fat people and those with heart conditions having heart attacks is not that rare.

You do realise that the fat and those with heart conditions are already banned from a large numbers of jobs due to the risk that they pose to the safety of themselves and others.
Are you saying the driver was overweight or had a heart condition ?
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Old 22-12-2014, 16:49
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If it is a heart attack I think we'll need to have a think about certain people being allowed to drive on our roads.

Anyone with a heart condition or who is overweight could be at danger of being banned for the safety of others.
Do you have a source if this was caused by an overweight driver. All we know It's a tragic accident which has killed 6 people Nd injuring many.

Going on about what or should be driving is pathetic and inconsiderate.
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Old 22-12-2014, 16:51
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Not just overweight people have heart attacks, stressed people/unhealthy people, can happen to anyone
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Old 22-12-2014, 16:51
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People with a heart condition, not on warfren, and possessing a LGV licence have to have a treadmill ECG stress test every three years and come off their meds 3 days beforehand.
Terrible as this tragedy is, it is a very rare occurrence.
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Old 22-12-2014, 16:52
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We'll soon see who's right.
and will you be back to own it if it isn`t you?


what an awful tragedy.
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Old 22-12-2014, 16:52
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Have just seen this. Utterly devastating. My heart goes out to all there today and to those families whose lives have changed in an instant. Awful.
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Old 22-12-2014, 16:53
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Respect to the people who apparently rushed to the casualties to offer aid, remarkable actions.
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Old 22-12-2014, 16:54
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That's the first I've heard of what happened yesterday in Dijon.
The poster calling someone an idiot for speculation about a connection is a tad harsh.
The bloke wasn't even speculating though, he was asked what went through his mind when the crash was happening, and he said that he thought it was terrorists, In that split second when he didn't know what was going on. That poster cherry picked half a conversation. And called the bloke an idiot. The man was clearly distressed and Sky News wouldn't leave him alone.
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