The concert, however, did not stop until around 10:14 or 10:15, according to a concertgoer. Officials received a complaint around 9:30 PM, and at 9:38 PM, a “mass casualty event” was declared. Many were passing out due to lack of oxygen and being pushed, with nobody seeming to look out for each other. You want people working together.'” How did it get so bad?Īs Scott began to perform, more people began to pass out and become trampled. And in crowd safety, that’s the last thing you want to occur. According to CNN, which interviewed Paul Wertheimer who is passionate about making concerts and crowds as safe as possible: “‘It forces people in a crowd to compete against each other for the best location or best area to be. Crowd surging refers to when the back of the crowd tries to push themselves to get as close as possible, which creates the “crowd crush” which was the cause of death for many of the victims.

Hundreds were injured at the tragedy that struck the sold-out concert headlined by rapper Travis Scott, on November 5. The death toll now stands at 10, with several others hospitalised.

The crowd is said to have surged towards the stage while Scott was performing at the third annual Astroworld music festival at NRG Park in Houston on Friday, November 5, 2021. A 9-year-old boy, who was in a medically-induced coma after suffering serious injuries during the crowd surge at the Astroworld music festival, died on Sunday. CNN, who did a story directly explaining what crowd surging is and why it can be so harmful. At least ten people are dead and hundreds are said to be injured following a crush at the opening night of rapper Travis Scott 's Astroworld Festival.

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