Stereosonic FestivalAdelaide Incident
During the Adelaide Stereosonic event at Bonython Park, 19-year-old Stefan Woodward died after attending the festival and two other attendees, a 20-year-old man and a 21-year-old woman, were reported in critical but stable condition in hospital. Police said they were investigating the source of the drugs and released images of pills found in Woodward’s possession.
Incident Overview
What happened
During the Adelaide Stereosonic event at Bonython Park, 19-year-old Stefan Woodward died after attending the festival and two other attendees, a 20-year-old man and a 21-year-old woman, were reported in critical but stable condition in hospital. Police said they were investigating the source of the drugs and released images of pills found in Woodward’s possession.
Date: 5 December 2015. Contemporary reports tie the incident to the Adelaide leg of Stereosonic held that Saturday.
Location: Bonython Park, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. One source describes it as “Bonython Park in Adelaide’s West Parklands.”
Casualty Reporting
Reported impact
Injuries: Two other festivalgoers were reported in critical but stable condition in hospital. A later trade report also said 22 people at the Adelaide show needed treatment for drug and alcohol reasons; I have kept that figure separate because it was not stated in the core contemporary ABC/Guardian reports I found.
Fatalities: 1 fatality reported: Stefan Woodward, 19.
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These points should be handled carefully in any further report, training pack, or formal review.
Different sources report this point differently, so it should be treated with care.
ABC / Guardian contemporaneous reporting says two other festivalgoers were in critical but stable condition in hospital.
Pollstar follow-up says two attendees were hospitalised, while 22 needed treatment for drug and alcohol reasons.
These are not necessarily mutually exclusive. The first figure refers to the two critical hospital cases; the later figure appears to refer to a broader count of people needing treatment.
Different sources report this point differently, so it should be treated with care.
ABC says police released images of “red or orange pills” stamped with dollar symbols.
Guardian says organisers referred to “two orange pills featuring a $ logo.”
The conflict is in colour description only; both sources describe dollar-sign-stamped pills linked to the investigation.
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