A hearing will take place in the autumn to decide whether a private prosecution will be brought against the Glasgow bin lorry driver who lost control and killed six people in the city centre two years ago.

Harry Clarke blacked out behind the wheel of the bin lorry in December 2014 in Queen Street and killed six people, including Jack and Lorraine Sweeney and their granddaughter Erin McQuade.

Bin Lorry driver Harry Clarke

It is their family who is pursing a private prosecution after the Crown Office decided not to procede.

Stephenie Tait, Jacqueline Morton and Gillian Ewing also died in the crash.

Scotland's top judge said that a two-day hearing to decide whether they will be able to procede with a private prosecution should take place in October or November, although theUpdate: Cyclist killed in hit-and-run on PCH

PCH  Police were searching Wednesday for the hit-and-run driver of a pickup truck that struck and killed a woman riding her bicycle on Pacific Coast Highway Tuesday night.

The woman, identified as Erin Galligan, 30, a waitress from Venice, was struck around 11:13 p.m. in the 200 block of PCH near Entrada Drive, said SMPD Sgt. Richard Lewis.

She was pronounced dead at the scene. Witnesses said the woman was riding southbound in the farthest right lane when she suddenly swerved into a middle lane and was struck by the driver, Lewis said.

Investigators are trying to determine why the cyclist moved out of her lane.

Police have parts from the vehicle involved and are trying to determine the exact make and model.

Galligan was leaving