Back from Ireland, I drove to Glasgow on Sunday.
At 2.30 yesterday afternoon I was in Princes Square shopping centre, a short walk from George Square.
At the same time my wife and mother-in-law were in another shopping centre, Buchanan Galleries.
Fifteen minutes later, as I walked up Buchanan Street to join them, I noticed three police officers running past.
Overhead a helicopter hovered.
Back in the car - and totally ignorant that a "major incident" had just taken place nearby – I turned on the radio.
On Five Live eye-witnesses were describing the scene after a bin lorry crashed into pedestrians and cars in George Square.
Six people killed, seven seriously injured.
A terrible freak accident no-one could have predicted or, it seems, done anything to prevent.
Further comment is, I think, superfluous.