By LINZI WATSON

A FATAL Accident Inquiry into the bin lorry crash which left six people dead will resume today for the ninth day of evidence.

The inquiry, at Glasgow Sheriff Court, has set out to establish the circumstances of the tragedy.

Erin McQuade, 18, her grandparents Jack Sweeney, 68, and his 69-year-old wife Lorraine, all from Dumbarton, died when a bin lorry lost control in Queen Street and George Square on December 22 last year.

Stephenie Tait, 29, and Jacqueline Morton, 51, both from Glasgow and Gillian Ewing, 52, from Edinburgh, were also killed when the truck mounted the pavement before crashing into the side of the Millennium Hotel.

The council bin lorry was being driven by Henry Clarke, known as Harry.

Witnesses reported seeing him "slumped" over the wheel, unconscious, as the runaway lorry ploughed into pedestrians.

The inquiry heard on Friday that Mr Clarke told his doctor he felt dizzy in 1976.

A catalogue of almost 30 entries in his medical record was read aloud.

The driver reported feeling dizzy on a number of occasions as well as vertigo, anxiety, depression, lethargy, stress, and "vasovagal" or fainting.

In the first entry detailed, 38 years before the tragedy, he told his doctor he felt "dizzy while bending".

The FAI heard that in 1989 he fainted while he was working as a driver for Tennant's Caledonian.

In 1994 he reported feeling dizzy with "pain in his chest and palpitations" and was referred to a specialist.

And in 2003, when he was the driver of an oil tanker, he told his doctor that he was suffering from "dizziness" and "dullness of hearing".

He was told to stop driving until he was seen at a follow up appointment.

In 2009, while working as a bus driver with First Bus, he was signed off with stress after telling his doctor he felt "irritable and anxious".

The most recent episode detailed was 2010 when Mr Clarke is said to have passed out behind the wheel of a bus in Glasgow.

First Bus inspector John Stewart previously told the inquiry Mr Clarke reported "blacking out for a couple of minutes" in the stationary bus.

But the medical records show Mr Clarke told his doctor that he had passed out in a hot canteen.

Mr Clarke was under suspension by First Bus when he started working with council in January 2011 driving a bus for children with special needs.

Council bosses who have given evidence to the inquiry say they were not aware of Mr Clarke's medical problems, as they were not declared, or his disciplinary history.

The families of the victims wept as Dorothy Bain QC said those killed would still be here if Mr Clarke had "told the truth".

The FAI is looking at the mechanics of the bin lorry and the route it took through the city, as well as Mr Clarke's medical history and his fitness to hold a licence.

The Crown case is being led by Solicitor General Lesley Thomson QC, Scotland’s second most senior law officer.

The families of all those killed are represented at the inquiry.

Mr Clarke is represented as well as Glasgow City Council, the DVLA and the doctors who treated Mr Clarke.

The inquiry is expected to last between three and six weeks.