The Hillsborough Disaster, 1989. The worst crowd crush in British sporting history.

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WZPV on November 9th, 2021 at 02:24 UTC »

97 deaths, holy hell

VerisimilarPLS on November 9th, 2021 at 04:34 UTC »

On 12 September 2012, the Hillsborough Independent Panel[118] concluded that no Liverpool fans were responsible in any way for the disaster,[119] and that its main cause was a "lack of police control". Crowd safety was "compromised at every level" and overcrowding issues had been recorded two years earlier. The panel concluded that "up to 41" of the 96 who perished might have survived had the emergency services' reactions and co-ordination been better.[120] The number is based on post-mortem examinations which found some victims may have had heart, lung or blood circulation function for some time after being removed from the crush. The report stated that placing fans who were "merely unconscious" on their backs rather than in the recovery position, would have resulted in their deaths due to airway obstruction.[121] Their report was in 395 pages and delivered 153 key findings.

The findings concluded that 164 witness statements had been altered. Of those statements, 116 were amended to remove or change negative comments about South Yorkshire Police. South Yorkshire Police had performed blood alcohol tests on the victims, some of them children, and ran computer checks on the national police database in an attempt to "impugn their reputation".[122] The report concluded that the then Conservative MP for Sheffield Hallam, Irvine Patnick, passed inaccurate and untrue information from the police to the press.[123][124]

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

My_Dramatic_Persona on November 9th, 2021 at 08:31 UTC »

They say it’s the worst in British sporting history because of the time 183 children died in a crush at a magic show. Crowd crushes are just awful and can happen for the stupidest reasons if a venue isn’t prepared. I’m not even sure if that’s the worst one in British history, it’s just the worst one I know about.

Edit: It is the worst in British history, according to Wikipedia. At least it led to the invention of the crash bar emergency exit door.