Melburnians Report Being ‘Wedged’ In A ‘Terrifying’ Crowd Crush In A CBD Underpass On NYE

Folks who were celebrating New Year’s Eve in the Melbourne CBD have spoken about a truly fucking scary crowd crush in the Elizabeth Street pedestrian underpass. Nothing like reports of poor crowd management at a popular New Year’s Eve event to bring in the new year. Per the Guardian, about 475,000 Melburnians headed to the city centre to bring in 2023. But for a group of them, shit hit the fan when they were reportedly directed into the Elizabeth Street tunnel ‘cos part of Flinders Street had been closed off. One reveller took to a thread

“So we’re walking forward a few metres at a time and the tunnel is getting hotter and hotter, people are sweating, you’re aware that people are starting to press into you from every side.

“Then the line at the front came to a complete stop. So we are all stuck inside the tunnel, people are pressing against you from every direction, the force of the crowd had already separated me from my friends and none of us could move forward or back.”

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