Beyond the Valley music festival traffic jam: Cars banked up for nine hours in Victoria

New Year’s Eve revelers trying to exit an outdoor music festival were stranded in scorching heat for nine hours with traffic due to a massive gridlock on the only exit street.

Some even punched holes through the chain-link fencing to escape the chaos at the Beyond the Valley music festival, held on Barunah Plains in rural Victoria, where Nelly Furtado and Kaytranada performed on New Year’s Eve. New.

Organizers have since issued a humiliating apology for “the delays and inconvenience caused” after some attendees collapsed from dehydration and heat stroke.

People trying to get out of an outdoor music festival have been stranded for nine hours in blistering heat. Pictured are revelers at the Beyond the Valley music festival.

In the image, the scene where thousands of cars tried to merge into a single street.

Monique Moor, a festival goer, said the huge queue of traffic had ruined her festival experience.

“There doesn’t appear to be any traffic control, and no one has managed to move in hours,” he told the outlet. herald sun.

“This is every man for himself, people have been cutting wire fences and breaking through, standing on top of cars trying to figure out what’s going on.”

Ms Moor said that despite the oppressive heat reaching 30 degrees, she and her three travel companions don’t want to use the air conditioning because they worry the car battery will die.

“We’ve seen a dozen cars broken down, and most people don’t have (mobile phone) reception, which makes it even more stressful,” he said.

People have been stranded in their cars (pictured) for up to nine hours as they tried to leave the Beyond the Valley festival site

One woman was so frustrated by the traffic situation that she copied the Victoria Police in her tweet (pictured)

They left their camp at 9 in the morning and hours later they had only managed to move 20 meters.

Assistant Jack Morgan vented his fury over the situation on social media.

‘About 50 lanes of traffic trying to merge into one lane. I’ve been waiting for almost 9 hours,’ she wrote on Twitter.

another man said channel 9 he had seen a woman who had ‘heat stroke, just delirious, was unconscious for a while’.

Pictured are Beyond the Valley festival headliners Nelly Furtado (left) and Denzel Curry (right)

Three young women at the Beyond the Valley festival held in Barunah Plains, Victoria.

A man named Jim tweeted (pictured) his frustration at what was happening at the festival.

A man named Jim said it took his daughter nine hours to get out of the site.

He tweeted at 5:30pm that ‘My daughter is finally leaving Beyond the Valley after waiting in her car in line since 8:30am

He said that people were passing out from dehydration and that the organizers had to hand out free water. Apparently there is no traffic management, so security has that job now.

Another father, Patrick Griffiths, said it was the first time his 18-year-old daughter had attended a festival like this and it’s quite worrying.

You wouldn’t want there to be a fire or something. It seems like it’s easier to get out of prison than it is to escape Beyond the Valley,” she said.

One Twitter user (pictured) tweeted about having to wait in 36 degree heat for seven hours.

Two young women at the Beyond the Valley festival in Barunah Plains, Victoria

A woman at the Beyond the Valley festival in Victoria over the New Years holiday weekend.

Organizers said the influx of cars leaving the festival, as well as general festive traffic on the roads, caused the gridlock.

“We are experiencing traffic delays leaving the festival today due to the influx of cars leaving the festival, as well as general holiday traffic on the roads,” the festival said on Instagram amid a wave of complaints.

‘Our team have buggies that squirt water at the cars, we have ample water tanks around the site to fill bottles too.

‘We understand that this process is not pleasant in the heat.

“Our priority is to get everyone home safely.”