Sentence examples for crowd panic from inspiring English sources

JOHN SEABROOK: Though interestingly there doesn't seem to have been much or any crowd panic in the Tucson shooting.

Invoking Hillsborough, a doctor present that night observed it was miraculous no one was killed – from crowd panic and surges that could have easily led to people toppling over the waist-high walls of the bridge and into the Thames below.

Fabius expressed fears on Tuesday about the risk of another terror attack and of the sort of crowd panic seen in Paris's Place de République on 15 November, when hundreds of people fled a solidarity vigil after firecrackers were let off.

In this paper, we review experiences in using non-human organisms to study crowd panic in the literature.

Related sites Dirk Helbing's pages about crowd panic Keith Still's home page.

172An example of crowd panic is the Baghdad bridge stampede on August 31, 2005, where pilgrims moving toward the Al Kadhimiya Mosque got nervous due to rumors of an imminent suicide bomb attack, after there had been already armed conflict on the same day, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Baghdad_bridge_stampede.org/wiki/2005_Baghdad_bridge_stampede

Volunteers posing as fans played dead, dozens more were injured, and the crowd panicked and charged.

Some survivors said the crowd panicked when people shouted that the slightly swaying bridge was about to collapse.

At the Los Angeles premiere party last fall for "The World Is Not Enough," the crowd panicked when word got out that the bags were running out.

One witness said the chaos began after flurries of fake money descended from a nearby building, when some people fell over while scrambling to pick up the bills and the crowd panicked.

The predictions of rescaled model correspond to the quantitative data available for crowd panics, suggesting that the same kinds of interactions among individuals and with the physical environment govern crowd behaviour.