The first person to be hit in the Glasgow bin lorry tragedy a decade ago revisits the site to pay tribute every year.
Elaine Morell, 59, said she struggled to cope after being mown down by the vehicle on December 22, 2014.
The retail worker suffered a brain injury and had to have a metal plate inserted in her face after council worker Harry Clarke lost control of the lorry in the city centre.
She had just left her office for lunch when the freak incident happened.
Elaine, from Kilmarnock, said: “I was working just on the corner of Royal Exchange Square at the time in a private jewellers and had taken my lunch later than normal.
“I’d been waiting at the cash machine but the queue was too long so I decided I’d just leave it.
“That decision changed my life. The next thing I remember was waking up in hospital with the doctor telling me I was the luckiest person they’d ever seen.”
Elaine said she still has no idea how or where exactly she was struck by the 26-ton vehicle.
She said: “I really don’t know what happened, if I was hit from behind or the side or how it all happened.
“I do remember finding out that people had died and just couldn’t process it.
“How are you supposed to deal with that?
“Those people, I never knew them or met them but I still remember them every year.
“I go to George Square and lay flowers on the anniversary, ever since it happened.”
Elaine said the tragedy had given her “a new outlook on life” and she now no longer makes many future plans.
She said: “I just tend to live in the moment now. I don’t make plans way ahead because you never know what could happen.
“I also found Christmas time very difficult until last year when my two grandchildren – twin boys – were born.
“That’s been amazing and they’re such a joy.”
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