THE tenant of a house where a bin lorry crashed into the front garden slept through the accident.

Kerry Callaghan first became aware of the dramatic scene outside her home when she saw images on social media.

She was asleep in her rented flat on Croftside Avenue yesterday when a bin lorry driver became unwell, his lorry careening into her front garden.

As we told yesterday in a special late night edition of the Evening Times, the driver's brave colleagues are believed to have leapt into the cab and pulled the handbrake.

Kerry said: "I slept right through the whole thing. I saw pictures of the front of our house on social media, which was completely bizarre, and then a police officer knocked on the door and said, 'look outside'.

"I couldn't believe it. My first thought was, 'I hope the driver is ok'.

"This is normally a very quiet street so I can't believe this happened here. I'm so shocked."

The 26-year-old, who lives with boyfriend Andy Borthwick, 22, watched as the 16-tonne vehicle was rescued from her front garden.

She added: "It's so lucky no one was injured. The only damage is to our hedge - what a lucky escape."

It is understood the driver of the lorry took ill at the wheel at around 11.20am yesterday morning.

His colleagues, who were out of the truck collecting wheelie bins, noticed he was becoming unwell and managed to jump back into the cab, pulling the handbrake.

A council source said the truck was going at only 1mph at the time, meaning it came to rest before hitting the house.

Ambulance and police rushed to the scene, in King's Park, where the driver was checked over by paramedics and taken to the Victoria Infirmary for treatment.

The lorry's crew were also assessed by medics. The driver, said to be 48 and from Glasgow, was last night believed to still be in hospital.

The council source said the lorry had passed its daily check at the Polmadie Depot on Glasgow's South Side.

Police tested the driver, as is standard in any road traffic accident, and he proved negative for alcohol. He is also thought to have had no current health issues.

For some onlookers the incident brought back echoes of George Square's bin lorry disaster in December.

Six pedestrians were killed when Harry Clarke, the driver of a Glasgow City Council refuse vehicle, became ill at the wheel and lost control of his truck.

Neighbour Pamela Crosby, 33, was just back from holiday and looking after her young children when she heard a commotion outside.

Pamela said: "This is really scary, especially given what happened at Christmas. I'm just relieved no one was hurt today. It's really shocking that this happened in our street.

"I keep thinking that if it had just veered to the right instead of the left it might have come in to our house."

Another neighbour, who asked to use her first name, Cathleen, said: "I was held up at work because of staff training or the lorry would have gone right into my car.

"My boyfriend saw our house pictured on Facebook so I've rushed home to make sure everything is ok. I can't believe it - but at least no one was hurt."

A tow truck arrived around 1.30pm to remove the stricken lorry from the garden.

As it was pulled backwards uphill from the property the only evidence of the accident was a cracked number plate on the lorry and a crushed garden hedge.

A spokesman for Glasgow City Council said: "We are aware of an incident in which a bin lorry left the road yesterday morning. The driver of the vehicle was taken to hospital to be checked over. It is a huge relief that no-one appears to have been injured.

"We are assisting the police with their enquiries."