Teenager dies at Electric Daisy Carnival Texas
- PublishedMon, Jun 20, 2011, 18:00
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- Dozens more were hospitalized during Saturday night's event, mostly due to overcrowding.
- This past weekend's Electric Daisy Carnival in Texas resulted in dozens of hospitalizations and at least one death, according to the Dallas Observer. For reasons that are still under investigation, 19-year-old Andrew Graf was dead upon arrival at Baylor University Medical Center. Others remain in hospital care today, one in "critical condition." Though drug and alcohol use are considered possible causes for the incidents, intense heat and overcrowding have received most of the blame so far. "It was crazy," said Diplo, one of the event's headliners along with Skrillex and Paul Van Dyk. "There were just too many kids on stage." The festival was scheduled to run from 4:00 PM until 2:00 AM, but the fire department pulled the plug early when someone set off a fire alarm, by which point conditions had been worsening for hours. Shortly after midnight, one officer said the people inside were "dropping like flies." It's not the first time Electric Daisy Carnival has ended in tragedy. Last year's event in LA, also beleaguered by overcrowding and heat, led to the death of a 16-year-old girl who was widely presumed to have overdosed on ecstasy. That incident prompted a wide debate about big commercial raves in the United Sates. The next Electric Daisy Carnival will take place on Friday at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
- Sat, Jun 18, 2011
Electric Daisy Carnival 2011 Texas
Paul Van Dyk, Axwell, Avicii, Markus Schulz, Gabriel & Dresden, Super8 & Tab, Wolfgang Gartner, Green Velvet, Felguk, DJ Dan, Diplo, Skrillex, Feed Me, Bart B More, Doorly, Excision, Flux Pavilion, Doctor P, Dirtyphonics, J Majik, Mark Farina, Morgan Page, Fred Everything, Justin Martin, Demarkus Lewis, Brett Johnson