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Notting Hill Carnival crowds seen screaming and forced to climb over gates as thousands packed into one road with no space

2022-08-30 1,971 Dailymotion

Notting Hill Carnival crowds were seen screaming and forced to climb over gates as thousands were ended up packed into one road with no space.<br /><br />Footage of the incident filmed by a resident on Ladbroke Grove shows thousands of people packed in like sardines and move in wave-like surges as people desperately try to get through.<br /><br />The clip has been viewed nearly 3,000,000 times on TikTok with nearly 130,000 likes.<br /><br />The filmer explained that this was not an ongoing occurrence through the Bank Holiday Monday edition of the carnival, but an isolated incident.<br /><br />They said: "It was definitely just an individual moment, there was sufficient crowd control.<br /><br />"[There was] designated flow in the surrounding roads but maybe they thought Ladbroke Grove was wide enough to cope?<br /><br />"The mad rush was only a one-moment thing as the parade was coming to a close and people needed to move in opposing directions to get out and go home.<br /><br />"It was an unprecedented amount of people this year and clearly unexpected and unplanned for."<br /><br />Source: SWNS

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