A spokesman for Glasgow city council confirmed that Mr Clarke was due to attend a disciplinary hearing earlier, but that the council received his resignation immediately before it was set to take place.
Harry Clarke, 58, was unconscious when the Glasgow city council refuse lorry he was driving on a routine collection round careered out of control on Queen Street before crashing into a hotel three days before Christmas last year.
A fatal accident inquiry held over the summer heard that Mr Clarke had a history of blackouts and had previously fallen unconscious behind the wheel of a bus, but that he had failed to inform his employers and the DVLA of this.
Immediate
A spokesman for the council said today: “Harry Clarke has resigned with immediate effect and is no longer an employee of Glasgow city council.”
It is believed that Mr Clarke’s disciplinary hearing related to evidence which arose during the recent fatal accident inquiry into crash, which was adjourned in August. A report on the findings of the inquiry is set to be published next year.
Jack Sweeney, 68, his wife Lorraine, 69, and their 18-year-old granddaughter Erin McQuade, all from Dumbarton, were among the victims of the December 22 2014 crash. Gillian Ewing, 52, from Edinburgh, Jacqueline Morton, 51, and 29-year-old Stephenie Tait from Glasgow also lost their lives.
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