0 a strong fence that is used to divide a large crowd, for example at a sports game, to stop them from being pressed too close together --
More banking and terracing around the entire pitch were completed, crush barriers erected and new stile houses installed (bringing the total to 28).
I had an instance brought to my notice the other day when two spectators—they were young boys—were quite seriously injured by being pressed against the crush barriers.
When seating of the spectators is not immediately possible, there will be large banked and stepped terraces where crush barriers will minimise the surging of crowds.
They may impose conditions such as the maximum number of people to be admitted to any part of a stadium and the provision of entrances and exits and crush barriers.
It does away with the necessity for crush barriers, and does not obstruct the pavement along which the pedestrians walk.
There were few crush barriers, and those were badly placed.
It is a terrace which is now covered in crush barriers.
It has been suggested that crush barriers might be used as an alternative.
