Crush Disasters - Hillsborough and other Human Crushes - When It Goes Wrong

Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. On this episode we will be covering crush disasters - mainly Hillsborough where in 1989, 97 people were killed at a football game in Sheffield UK. We will then summarise some other crushes Astroworld where in 2021, 10 people were killed at a concert in Houston Texas and the Love Parade festival crush in Germany. This will be a 2 part series.

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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_collapses_and_crushes

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/english-football-clubs-banned-from-europe

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2011/aug/10/police-uk-riots-football-postponements

Hillsborough:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/229038/0581.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster

https://iosh.com/news/hillsborough-30-years-on/

Astroworld:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2021/what-happened-astroworld-travis-scott/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59205840

Astroworld - countdown to tragedy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYREIrmHLGM

Love Parade: