Teen crushed by crowds at Adelaide music festival
An Adelaide teenager has told of the frightening moment she was crushed by concert-goers after passing out at a city music festival.
International rapper Post Malone had no choice but to stop his performance when crowds refused to clear out and help the young fan to safety.
When thousands of music fans packed into Elder Park for Sunday's FOMO Festival, nobody was expecting to get hurt.
But when a fan passed out and was crushed by the heaving crowd, things came to a grinding halt.
"Everybody, everybody, quit pushing, just hang out for a second, huh?" organisers can be heard telling the audience.
"Somebody's hurt at the front."
"When I woke up, I just saw bodies upon bodies on top of me," 16-year-old Litisha Bevear said.
"Everyone was moving or not getting up and I was just screaming, and no-one was doing anything."
Litisha and her friend Elle Burns had waited at the stage's front barrier for four hours to see the artist when things turned ugly.
"We were getting shoved, we were getting elbowed, people were just going, like, crazy to get to the front," Elle said.
Despite desperate efforts from organisers to winch Litisha to safety, the crowd wouldn't budge.
"Take three f***in' steps back, god damn," organisers can be heard saying.
"Please, we're working together here, you need to chill out a little bit."
The teenager was rushed to hospital and treated for back and leg injuries.
"I get there's a famous person a couple of metres in front of you, but where's the human decency?", Elle said.
"Somebody's hurt themselves."
FOMO Festival organisers were contacted for comment.
