Glasgow van crash leaves four people including a schoolboy injured as vehicle ‘loses control and smashes into bus shelter’
Woman 'pinned to a fence' as plumber's van mounted the kerb and demolished a bus stop where three people were waiting in Clydebank at 7.45am
FOUR people including a schoolboy have been injured after a van lost control and smashed into a bus stop in Glasgow this morning.
The white plumber's van ran out of control and demolished a shelter where bus passengers were waiting in the Clydebank area of the city.
Witnesses said one woman was "pinned to a fence" in the horror.
Cops confirmed a 15-year-old boy and a man aged 43 were seriously injured.
A woman aged 48 and the van driver aged 52 suffered minor injuries.
At least nine emergency vehicles scrambled to the scene on Kilbowie Road shortly before 8am.
Pictures and videos of the scene show the heating company van beside the wreckage of the shelter, which is used by kids going to school.
A local butcher manager told how he rushed to the aid of victims, who were all alert and conscious.
He said: "I was talking to the young boy. He was bleeding from the face. Someone was talking to the driver of the van as well so everyone was able to talk.”
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Hero Stephen Beaton, 44, rushed from his flat across the road after hearing a "bang".
He said: “It was carnage. It was horrible to see.
“There was a wee boy who had been sent flying and another guy was in a really bad way.
“People were stopping their cars to get out and help.”
Another shaken eyewitness, who asked not to be named, said: “The van just took out the bus stop. It was horrible.
“There was three people, two adults and one might have been a child.”
One local who posted video of the aftermath on Twitter said: "Looks a really bad one. Intentionally turned the camera away at the end."
Witnesses described the scene as “utter carnage” as police and crash scene investigators set about piecing together what went wrong.
They said a white Renault van owned by a local plumbing and heating company had destroyed bus stop near a hairdresser's, a popular chip shop Adriano’s and a Coral bookies.
One said: “It’s just gone – the bust stop has been wiped out, just totally wiped out.”
“It was one of those big shelters, but there’s nothing left anymore. Just the van on where it used to be and broken bits of metal.
“The van is all smash in at the front. It’s windscreen is shattered. It looks like it just destroyed the bus stop before crashing into a fence outside Jon & Co the barbers.”
Locals said the bus stop was one of the main pick up points for all the local schools in the area.
One man said: “It’s just unbelievable. It doesn’t bear thinking about.
“Everyone who was there looks like they have been taken away to hospital. There’s still a few ambulances and police speaking to people who saw it. They look really white and shaken.”
John Dunsmore, owner of Jon & Co hair salon, : “It happened before I got here. But the man upstairs said he saw a woman pinned to the fence.
“The bus stop’s demolished. The lamppost is knocked down.
"But I believe everyone was conscious when they were taken to hospital.”
Police Scotland said four people including the driver of the van were taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.
Inspector Adam McKenzie said: “About 7.45am, a van was travelling south bound on Kilbowie Road when, for reasons that aren’t yet known, it mounted the kerb and collided with a bus stop and pedestrians who were waiting at that bus stop.
“We have four persons injured, three of whom we don’t believe are serious and one of whom we’re waiting a medical update on.
“It’s too early to speculate on what happened, it’s a serious incident and there’ll be a full enquiry into the crash this morning.”
A spokeswoman for heating firm Hiflow said: “We are not making any comment at this time.”
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