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@ARTICLE{Sieben:1009548,
author = {Sieben, Anna and Seyfried, Armin},
title = {{I}nside a life-threatening crowd: {A}nalysis of the {L}ove
{P}arade disaster from the perspective of eyewitnesses},
journal = {Safety science},
volume = {166},
issn = {0925-7535},
address = {Amsterdam [u.a.]},
publisher = {Elsevier Science},
reportid = {FZJ-2023-02870},
pages = {106229 -},
year = {2023},
abstract = {During the Love Parade disaster in 2010 in Duisburg,
Germany, twenty-one visitors lost their lives and more than
five hundred were injured in a very dense crowd on the route
to and from the festival area. Approximately nine hundred
visitors who had been among this crowd were subsequently
interviewed by police officers as eyewitnesses. This paper
analyzes a random sample of 136 of these witness statements,
focusing on how those present perceived the crowd, how they
behaved, how they experienced the event emotionally, what
happened to their bodies, and which collective dynamics they
described. This approach provides a perspective from within
crowd dynamics which are usually observed from a top-view
perspective. Almost all the attendees became strongly
focused on the staircase and the pole—the only visible
ways out of the crowd. In some cases, they tried to reach
these destinations by all means and at the expense of
others. But at the same time, helping behavior is the
behavior most frequently mentioned. Although witnesses
described feelings of intense fear, they reject the idea of
mass panic. As the most dangerous dynamics, a combination of
falls (often after people had fainted) and transversal waves
(which made people fall on top of each other) could be
reconstructed. When people fall in a tightly packed crowd, a
hole can form which pulls in more people due to the pressure
on those standing around the edge of the hole, thus creating
a pile of wedged bodies.},
cin = {IAS-7},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IAS-7-20180321},
pnm = {5111 - Domain-Specific Simulation $\&$ Data Life Cycle Labs
(SDLs) and Research Groups (POF4-511)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5111},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:001035496500001},
doi = {10.1016/j.ssci.2023.106229},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1009548},
}