A MINUTE’S silence was held to remember the lives lost to tragedies for the area.
West Dunbartonshire Council made the annual mark of the death of three crew members on the Flying Phantom tug boat in 2007 and the lost of three family members in the Glasgow bin lorry crash in 2014.
The tug disaster on the Clyde, near West College Scotland in Clydebank, claimed the lives Captain Stephen Humphreys, engineer Robert Cameron and deckhand Eric Blackley on December 19, 2007.
On December 22, 2014, Jack Sweeney, 68, his wife, Lorraine, 69, and their granddaughter, Erin McQuade, 18, from Dumbarton, were all killed in the bin lorry crash in Glasgow. Six people in total died in the incident.
Councillors and officials pause their December full council meeting each year to remember both tragedies and how they impacted Dumbarton and the Vale and Clydebank.
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