Festival-goers were crushed, left gasping for air and unconscious during a chaotic crowd stampede at the Falls Festival in Lorne on Victoria’s south-west coast, witnesses say.
Worksafe has blamed bottle-necks at exits and unstable ground for the stampede at Falls Festival, with one doctor saying he was amazed no one was killed in the crush.
Police say about 60 people were injured, 19 seriously, after festival-goers slipped and fell at the front of a crowd leaving performance by band DMA’s
A man has described how he has been left with “a few chunks missing” and will require skin grafts after being trampled in a massive crush at Victoria’s Falls Festival.
Tim Hunt, 29, was one of up to 80 revellers injured in the stampede which saw 19 people taken to hospital with broken bones and other serious injuries at the festival at Lorne on December 30.
One of the 19 people seriously injured at the Lorne event says he thought he was going to die: ‘You stopped struggling’
International “physics of crowd movement” experts are being sought to determine how thousands of people became caught up in the crowd crush at last year’s Falls Festival.
Organisers of Victoria’s popular Falls Festival have admitted their conduct was at fault for a crush that injured more than 70 people in December 2016.
More than 70 victims of the 2016 crowd crush at Falls Festival will receive a share of almost $7 million, following a settlement approval from the Victorian Supreme Court.
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