Burnden Park disaster

When

1946

Kind

Crowd crush

Coordinates

53.57° N, 2.42° W

Description

1946 human crush during a football game in Lancashire, England

Date from

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1946 crowd crush in Lancashire, England

The Burnden Park disaster was a crowd crush that occurred on 9 March 1946 at Burnden Park football stadium, then the home of Bolton Wanderers. The crush resulted in the deaths of 33 people and injuries to hundreds of Bolton fans. It was the deadliest stadium-related disaster in British history until the Ibrox Park disaster in 1971.

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