A Glasgow truck driver died in a horrific road crash hours after taking cocaine.
An investigation into the death of David Provan found he failed to react to a stationary lorry carrying a static caravan and crashed the car transporter he was driving into the side of the vehicle.
Details of the crash were laid out in the findings of a Fatal Accident Inquiry (FAI) published last week.
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The report explained that Mr Provan had worked as a driver for Glasgow body repair business Mitchel Inglis Ltd for 15 years and had driven to Dunoon to collect a customer's car.
In a written statement following the hearing at Dunoon Sheriff Court, Sheriff M J Higgins ruled that nothing could have been done by Mr Provan's employers to prevent the crash.
He pointed out: "I am satisfied that there were no reasonable precautions identified which could have been taken by Mitchell Inglis Limited which might, realistically, have resulted in the death, or the accident resulting in the death, having been avoided."
The tragedy happened on December 9, 2020 as Mr Provan travelled back to Glasgow with the car loaded onto his large goods vehicle. The 58-year-old ploughed into the side of the parked lorry on the A815 near Cairndow, Argyll, sadly he could not be saved and died at the scene.
A post-mortem was later carried out at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.
The report explained: "Post-mortem examination findings indicate that David Provan died as the result of cocaine intoxication together with chest and abdominal injuries sustained as the driver in a road traffic collision.
"Cocaine and its inactive metabolites, benzoylecgonine and ecgonine methylester, were found in the blood indicating the use of cocaine within a few hours before death.
"In summary, Mr Provan was under the influence of the stimulant illicit drug cocaine at the time of a road traffic collision in which he sustained significant chest and abdominal injuries, the death is therefore considered to have been caused by both the drug intoxication and trauma."
Two mobile phones found in Mr Provan's possession were examined by police, who were unable to establish the source of the cocaine.
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