A teenager who was crushed in the Falls Festival stampede has described being covered in someone else's blood and urine while being suffocated under about 15 people.
"I couldn't breathe, I was hyperventilating, it felt like drowning. I thought I was going to die," Sophie Baldock, 19, told Fairfax Media.Â
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Festival stampede eyewitness account
19-year-old Sophie Baldock describes being covered in someone else's blood and urine and being suffocated under about 15 people during crowd crush at the Lorne Falls Festival on Friday night.
More than 60 people were injured, 19 seriously, during a human crush at the Lorne leg of the Falls Festival after some crowd members slipped, triggering a stampede on Friday night.
Ms Baldock was waiting to get out of the Grand Theatre tent when she saw her friend, Ruby, fall down.
"The DMA's set had just ended and so everyone was just going back down the hill," she said.Â
"Ruby was in front of me and she went down and I was trying to pull her up and then I fell down as well.We were on the ground and there was this flooding of people piling on top. We were stuck under there for at least five minutes. I couldn't even see the sky,  just covered in people."
Ms Baldock, who weighs 50 kilograms, said there may have been 15 people lying on top of her.Â
"Someone wet their pants because they were so scared and I was covered in someone else's blood and urine," she said.Â
"The girl next to me, she was screaming that she just wanted to live, I was trying to hold her hand and she went limp. I saw them trying to resuscitate her later as she was unconscious.
"I couldn't breathe, I was hyperventilating, it felt like drowning. I thought I was going to die."
She said people were trying to climb on to bins lined around the tent so they could grab the rails to get out.
Ms Black lost her friend Ruby in the crush, only to find her outside.Â
"When we found each other again, we were just crying, we had no shoes because they had been torn off."
Her friend Ruby Campbell, also 19, said she was just behind the two girls who were the first ones to fall.
She said it was so packed inside that she felt she could have been "carried out in a sea of people without using her legs".
"Then two people tripped in front of me, I didn't want to stand on them, but the crowd was pushing, so I just fell," Ms Campbell said.Â
"We were just like dominoes, people fell and fell."
She said all she could hear was screams around her of people saying, "I am dying, I am dying".
"By this stage, I was just clawing at anyone and anything to get out, but it was getting heavier and heavier," Ms Campbell said.
"I remember thinking 'stay calm and breathe normally' and ....then I heard a snap underneath me. I was on top of a person and their bone snapped.
"There were 10 people on top of me ...I felt the air get squished out of me. I just sort of accepted it. I just wanted it to be over. You'd almost die than have to go through that."
The two women escaped without any broken bones, but were covered in bruises.Â
"We were so lucky compared to some people," Ms Baldock said. "Another 10 seconds and we would have died."
She said even before the stampede began, it was really "compact and squishy"Â inside, with barely any space to move.Â
Ms Baldock said the organisers were not around to help or to guide.Â
"When we finally got pulled out by [other] patrons, there was no security, no medical staff," she said.Â
"We went for about a kilometre to the medical tent and they gave us two bandaids and said there was nothing else they could do," she said.
"And there were 50 people in that tent, all covered in blood and there was not enough staff there to help everyone."
She said other festival-goers came into the tent to help people off the ground.
The Bendigo resident said she felt traumatised and will not attend another festival for a long time.Â