Disabled AC/DC Fan Impaled At Brisbane Concert
February 28, 2010, 14 years ago
Tuck Thompson News.com.au is reporting:
A quadriplegic AC/DC fan suffered serious facial injuries when a mate accidentally hit the joystick of his motorised wheelchair and catapulted him into the mosh pit during a concert at the Queensland Sport and Athletic Centre on Saturday night.
Witnesses said a metal pin used by the 31-year-old Morningside man to manoeuvre objects became a spear and imbedded in his eye as his chair crashed more than a metre to the centre's floor.
QSAC faces criticism for not placing a proper barrier in front of the special wheelchair podium that would have prevented the accident.
Photos obtained by The Courier-Mail show while the podium had side and rear barriers, the only front barrier was a strip of floor timber and plastic caution tape.
The incident happened about 10pm as more than 45,000 fans danced to the legendary Aussie rockers during the second of their two sold-out Brisbane shows.
The man's friend moved his left hand when it struck the joystick and the wheelchair shot forward and fell end over end.
"He was shattered, just devastated by what happened," a person said of the distraught mate.
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