Hashish explains that once you have that many people grouped together in a tight space, “the main risk is just the fundamental lack of control over your environment,” not to mention a bit of copycat syndrome. The attendance of the festival at the time of Scott’s set on Saturday had reached upwards of 50,000 people. In this case, some people got obviously trampled,” he said. And obviously, the problem with that is that when you have a mass of people moving together, a lot of people unfortunately get left behind. He confirms that a crowd surge is a sudden and rapid movement in a large crowd of people, particularly during a concert “as a surge of people moving forward trying to get in close proximity to the artists. Hashish is the founder of the National Biomechanics Institute, a Los Angeles consulting company that examines injuries and injury prevention. Rami Hashish, a body performance and injury expert, explained to theGrio, that there are more than one contributing factors that may have led to what Pena deemed a “mass casualty incident.”ĭr. “When an incident happens where there’s been a personal injury at an event, it gets settled out of court, the documents get sealed… The industry doesn’t have this feedback mechanism… Near misses, close calls are known about – they’re not talked about.Travis Scott performs at Day 1 of the Astroworld Music Festival at NRG Park on Friday, Nov. And there are new processes and procedures put in places,” he said. If there’s a near miss or a close collision there is an investigation by experts. G Keith Still, a visiting professor of crowd science at the University of Suffolk, told The Telegraph that the live events industry should look to other safety-conscious fields for best practices. Historically, incidents like this have often been settled out of court, which means important lessons can be missed.
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The hope is that by thoroughly investigating this incident future tragedies can be avoided, but that will require a full and open accounting of what went wrong in Houston. In the days since the tragedy occurred, multiple lawsuits have already been brought against Travis Scott as well as organisers ScoreMore and Live Nation, while criminal investigations are also underway. “Security, why aren’t you paying attention? Like, for real,” asked Eilish as she gestured towards an area of unrest in the crowd, before adding: “One job, please.” Among those receiving praise have been Adele, who paused a rendition of “Rolling In The Deep” to point medics in the direction of a fan who had fainted, and Billie Eilish, who in September called out security at the Governors Ball festival in New York City for not doing their jobs. In the wake of the tragedy, numerous video clips of other performers such as Dave Grohl and Linkin Park stopping shows out of consideration for their audience have circulated online. The rest were crushed or unable to breathe in the thick, hot air.” Breathing became something only a few were capable of.
The rush of people became tighter and tighter. Women and men where the only thing they could see was the back of the person in front of them. “Within the first 30 seconds of the first song, people began to drown – in other people,” wrote Instagram user seannafaith.
The dead range in age from 14 to 27, and firsthand reports from the scene have been horrifying. Eight people have died and many more were injured after the 50,000-strong crowd surged toward the stage during Scott’s performance on Friday night, leaving fans at the front with nowhere to go. Anyone who’s ever felt the uncontrollable crush of a mosh pit will have been sickened by the news this weekend from Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival in Houston.
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