Sub Officer Robert White in an RTA in Drumchapel while on route to a fire on Wednesday 22nd May, 1957.
FIREMAN KILLED IN ROAD SKID
A 48 year old Clydebank fireman was killed yesterday on his
way to a chimney fire in Bearsden.
He was Sub officer Robert White, married with a nine year old son, who lived at
131 Lennox Drive, Faifley, Clydebank.
Sub Officer White was trapped in the cabin when the 8 ton fire tender taking him
to the fire skidded and collided with a lamp standard on Garscadden Road,
Drumchapel.
Minutes before the crash White and the driver of the wagon, Fireman George
Harwell (35), had been talking of the dangerous corner they were approaching.
(The Greenock Telegraph, Thursday, 23 May, 1957. Page 1)