Glasgow Bin Lorry Crash: Inside The Cab

Footage has been released showing broken glass strewn across the inside of a council bin lorry which crashed and killed six people in Glasgow city centre days before Christmas.

The video, which also shows a heavily cracked windshield, has been released by the fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into the incident.

On Thursday, the inquiry heard the driver of the lorry had been suspended from his previous job when he started working for Glasgow City Council.

Harry Clarke had also been given a formal written warning over his attendance record by First Bus, who suspended him in December 2010.

Mr Clarke then began a job with the council in January 2011.

On 22 December last year Mr Clarke was driving the council truck in the centre of Glasgow when it went out of control.

Witnesses reported he appeared to lose consciousness at the wheel.

Erin McQuade, 18, and her grandparents Jack Sweeney, 68, and Lorraine Sweeney, 69, from Dumbarton, West Dunbartonshire, were struck and killed.

Stephenie Tait, 29, and Jacqueline Morton, 51, both from Glasgow, and Gillian Ewing, 52, from Edinburgh, also died.

Solicitor Advocate Ronald Conway, representing the family of Ms Tait, told the inquiry Mr Clarke had received a formal written warning in autumn 2009 over absences from his job, and had also been given other warnings in that same year.

These included a two-week absence in August after a bout of vertigo and a 10-day absence due to a knee condition.

Mr Clarke appealed unsuccessfully against the formal written warning, the inquiry heard.

Cross-examining Douglas Gellan, a cleansing services waste manager at Glasgow City Council, Mr Conway asked whether if he had known about the final formal warning it would have acted as a "red flag", something Mr Gellan agreed with.

Mr Conway went on to describe Mr Clarke as a "deeply unattractive candidate for Glasgow City Council".

He suggested the council would not have given Mr Clarke a job if they had been aware of his absence record and the warnings.

Mr Conway said: "There's not the remotest chance that you would have let this man behind the wheel of a large vehicle."

Mr Gellan replied: "It's a case of not just me determining if he is fit to drive the vehicle.

"There's lots of evidence here. We would have taken it into account when making that decision."

The inquiry earlier heard that Mr Clarke started applying for jobs with the council in 2010.

Mr Conway told the inquiry that his employment record did not appear to have a reference from First Bus, and suggested the council failed to ask First Bus about Mr Clarke's employment record.

Mr Gellan said it is up to the candidate to decide which two former employers he names as referees.

Mr Conway said: "Someone has blundered, either someone in First Bus who has signally failed in their duty to members of the public, or someone in Glasgow City Council who has carried out a grossly incompetent recruitment process.

"That's the only two alternatives here."

Mr Gellan replied: "It seems to be, yes."