BIN lorry crash driver Harry Clarke asked medics ‘have I had a heart attack?’ as they attended to him minutes after the tragedy.

Off-duty staff nurse Lauren Mykoliw rushed to the aid of the bin lorry driver after hearing a loud bang.

She found him in the cab, conscious, and with his seat belt on.

It had crashed into the side of the Millennium Hotel after Mr Clarke lost control on Queen Street and the lorry ploughed into pedestrians.

She was giving evidence as the Fatal Accident Inquiry into the bin lorry crash which left six people dead resumed for the fourth day.

She told the inquiry: “He was pale, he looked shocked and a little bit sweaty.

“He asked me if he had had a heart attack.” She told him she couldn’t determine this.

Ms Mykoliw, 28, said Mr Clarke said repeatedly that he didn’t know what had happened and said he told her that he didn’t know if he had passed out or blacked out.

He did not complain of pain and said he ‘seemed well’ given the circumstances, she said.

The nurse spotted unopened beer bottles in the cab and asked Mr Clarke if he had been drinking and he said no.

The driver was then helped out of the lorry by firefighters, the inquiry heard.

Paramedic Ronald Hewitson, 52, treated Mr Clarke on the ground beside the lorry.

He told the inqiury he checked Mr Clarke's blood pressure, oxygen saturation levels, blood sugar levels and did a heart trace and all produced normal results.

The witness said: “He seemed slightly confused, slightly pale and I asked him if I could do checks which he agreed to.” He added: “Everything seemed to be fine he was still talking but slightly confused.” Mr Hewitson said: “Further on he asked if he had had heart attack or some sort of event which at that point I couldn’t classify.” Mr Clarke told the medics that he could remember being at the lights before the crash and told Mr Hewitson the next thing he remembered was someone ‘shaking’ him afterwards.

Mr Hewitson said Mr Clarke told him he had eaten lunch and that he had ‘a Pot Noodle, a Mars Bar and a can of coke’.

The inquiry, which began last Wednesday before Sheriff John Beckett at Glasgow Sheriff Court, has set out to establish the circumstances of the tragedy.

The inquiry continues.