Road worker killed and four injured as car mounts verge
A ROAD worker was killed and four of his colleagues injured after they were hit by a vehicle that mounted a grass verge where they were working.
The five men were struck by a BMW car on Monday night at Lomondgate roundabout in Dumbarton.
Emergency services were called to the incident and one of the workers, a 59year-old man, was pronounced dead at the scene.
A 37-year-old man was treated at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, where his condition is said to be serious.
Three men aged 38, 43 and 46 were taken to the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley and released after treatment.
The 43-year-old male driver of the BMW and his 35-year-old passenger were uninjured.
The five men had been working for construction company Amey when the accident occurred on the A82.
Sergeant Hugh Niccolls, from the Police Scotland Road Policing Unit at Dumbarton, said yesterday: ‘Our thoughts are with the family and friends of the man who died and his colleagues who were injured.
‘Our inquiries into this crash are continuing and I would appeal to anyone who witnessed this crash, or who was driving on this road and has dash-cam footage, to contact us.
‘I would also like to hear from anyone who saw the BMW 3 series car driving on this road before the crash took place.’
A spokesman for Amey said: ‘It is with great sadness that we can confirm that one of our employees died in a road traffic accident on the A82 yesterday.
‘Our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with his family, friends and colleagues.
‘We can confirm four other employees received injuries in the same incident and our thoughts are also with them at this time.
We are working with the police to establish how this tragic event occurred.’
Tributes flooded in yesterday as news of the man’s death was posted on social media.
One person said: ‘So tragic, thoughts go to the man and his family and friends. Wishing the other man in hospital and his colleagues well.’
Another said: ‘RIP to the poor man out doing his job and never returning home to his loved ones.’
will be told how long they will have to wait for treatment, tests or to see a doctor, the Health Secretary has promised.
Appearing before Holyrood’s health committee Humza Yousaf, pictured, revealed that real-time data will be published to give patients and doctors more accurate estimates on waiting times.
Challenged by Tory MSP and general practitioner Sandesh Gulhane about patients wanting to know how long they are likely to wait, Mr Yousaf agreed it was a ‘fair expectation’ and announced the Government would be publishing indicative waiting times that are ‘easy to find [and] easy to understand’. In the evidence session, Dr Gulhane said: ‘[A patient’s] first question they always ask me is “How long is the wait going to be?”’ Mr Yousaf replied: ‘We are working closely with boards to develop the infrastructure in order to collate and publish this data.’