Concert injury lawyers note that concert organizers and local officials in Washington D.C. have perhaps taken heed of the disaster resulting from last summer’s delay in canceling a concert and evacuating people from the Indiana State Fair in advance of a storm invoking high winds. The Sunday Memorial Day concert on Washington Mall in Washington, D.C. was cancelled about halfway through as a line of severe thunderstorms with potentially high winds moved into the area.
The choice to cancel the concert, an event with big name acts that is typically broadcast nationwide by PBS, was no small decision. But concertgoers were advised to leave the premises and seek shelter due to the severe weather moving in.
The deadly stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair, which claimed 7 lives and injured dozens of others, has spawned a series of safety discussions and new rules, regulations, policies, and procedures designed to prevent future, similar disasters. Since the deadly weather-related Indiana concert disaster, other weather-related outdoor event collapses have made the news around the country and around the world. Our concert injury lawyers have written about a few of these events, most recently a fatal stage collapse in Israel.
We’re relieved to see that the fatal Indiana stage collapse has led to a heightened concern for concertgoer safety and severe weather evacuations to prevent injury and fatality. Read about some of the new safety precautions taking effect because of the Indiana stage collapse in our linked article.