There seemed to be a bit of pocket dialling from the Download mosh pits 😬 Police said hundreds more calls than usual were received and call handlers could hear loud music in the background. Read more:
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During the festival Leicestershire Police said they received a large number of accidental emergency calls Operations director Mark Munnoch said: "The trouble was getting onto the site - everybody funnelling into Download and that was simply backing up onto local roads and all the way back to the motorway.He said National Highways worked with Download organisers and East Midlands Airport to try to clear the roads as quickly as possible but the cause of the delays was not yet known.
"To see those gridlocked was very worrying for us, but we will make sure we learn from that and put plans in place so that it doesn't happen again."On Sunday, Leicestershire Police put out an appeal urging festival goers to avoid accidentally calling 999. The force said it received more than 1,000 calls to its emergency number over the weekend compared to about 750 on a standard "busy" weekend, with some call handlers able to hear loud music in the background.
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