Hillsborough disaster facts for kids
The Hillsborough disaster was a fatal human crush during a football match at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, on 15 April 1989. It happened during an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest in the two standing-only central pens in the Leppings Lane stand allocated to Liverpool supporters. It caused the deaths of 96 people. Another 766 people were injured.
The Hillsborough Independent Panel was instituted in 2009 by the British government to investigate the Hillsborough disaster. On 12 September 2012, it published its report and launched a website with 450,000 pages of material collated from 85 organisations and individuals over two years.
The Hillsborough Independent Panel concluded that no Liverpool fans were responsible in any way for the disaster, and that its main cause was a "lack of police control". Crowd safety was "compromised at every level" and overcrowding issues had been recorded two years earlier. The panel concluded that "up to 41" of the 96 who had died up to that date, might have survived had the emergency services' reactions and co-ordination been better. Ambulances were not able to reach the injured, which helped increase the amount of people who died. There is a memorial at Hillsborough Stadium in memory of the people who died.
It is the worst disaster in a stadium in British history.
Images for kids
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The West Stand of Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough Stadium, where the disaster unfolded, seen two years later in 1991
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Leppings Lane was the sole access point for Liverpool supporters. The approach has been described as a "bottleneck" in which attendees had to fill two sides of the stadium.
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The Den, opened in 1993, became the first new stadium fully compliant with the safety recommendations of the Taylor Report.
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The Hillsborough memorial at Anfield
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Memorial at Hillsborough
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Memorial at Old Haymarket, Liverpool
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See also
In Spanish: Tragedia de Hillsborough para niños
