Posted on 08/01/2016 8:26:27 PM PDT by BenLurkin
More than 146,000 people attended the Saturday-Sunday outdoor event, according to organizers.
The victims were identified as Derek Lee, 22, of San Francisco; Alyssa Dominguez, 21, of San Diego; and Roxanne Ngo, 22, of Chino Hills, the San Bernardino County coroner’s office said.
Lee and Dominguez died early Sunday and Ngo died early Monday. The causes of death were under investigation.
“We were deeply saddened to learn about the deaths of three people who attended the festival this weekend,” Hard Summer spokeswoman Alexandra Greenberg said in a statement. “Our sincerest thoughts and condolences are with their family and friends.”
Hard Summer was moved to Fontana’s Auto Club Speedway this year after two young women died of drug overdoses at last year’s event at the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds in Pomona.
The parents of 19-year-old college student Katie Dix recently sued event promoter Live Nation, Los Angeles County and others over Dix’s death, which authorities blamed on multiple-drug intoxication.
The death of 18-year-old UCLA student Tracy Nguyen was from an Ecstasy overdose, authorities said.
The defendants have declined to comment on the lawsuit.
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Temperatures in the Fontana area, 50 miles east of Los Angeles, have been in the 90s.
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Play stupid games...
Drugs....
Why is Live Nation liable for a multiple drug overdose?
I wonder what the statistical norm regarding dying would be for 150k kids over 2 days, without drug OD.
I’m just curious that way :)
Probably .00000002?
It has nothing to do with auto racing, or anything dangerous at the event. It's just that you've got more than 160,000 people in one place at the same time, and there is a good statistical likelihood that any one of them is going to die of natural causes or some other common misfortune.
You beat me to it. LOL.
You are being generous.
;-)
If you have to ask, no explanation is possible.
Someone took the brown acid.
Proper parenting could have avoided all that suffering.
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