Travis Scott's Astroworld festival crowd deaths added to long list of people who've been crushed at a major event. Experts explain how crowd surges kill:
Most major events happen without a death, of course, but experts say they see common traits within the tragedies. Here’s a look at how they happen:They’re often getting squeezed so hard that they can’t get any oxygen. It’s usually not because they’re getting trampled.When a crowd surges, the force can be strong enough to bend steel. It can also hit people from two directions: one from the rear of the crowd pushing forward and another from the front of the crowd trying to escape.
Travis Scott Addresses Astroworld Tragedy in Video to Fans: 'I Could Never Imagine the Severity of the Situation'“My research covers over 100 years of disasters, and invariably they all come down to very similar characteristics,” said G. Keith Still, a visiting professor of crowd science at the University of Suffolk in England who has testified as an expert witness in court cases involving crowds.
Surges don’t always happen because people are running away from something. Sometimes they’re caused by a crowd moving toward something, such as a performer on the stage, before they hit a barrier. Still also cited poor crowd-management systems, where event organizers don’t have strong procedures in place to report red flags or warnings, among the reasons deadly surges happen.
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