Beyond the Valley

New Year's revellers trying to leave an open air music festival were stranded in searing heat for up to nine hours with traffic because of a major traffic ...

'You wouldn't want there to be a fire or something. A woman is pictured at the Beyond the Valley festival held in Victoria over the New Year's holiday weekend Two young women are pictured at the Beyond the Valley festival in Barunah Plains, Victoria Three young women are pictured at the Beyond the Valley festival held at Barunah Plains, Victoria People have been stranded in their cars (pictured) for up to nine hours while trying to leave the Beyond the Valley festival site Pictured are revellers at Beyond the Valley music festival

Frustrated revellers trying to leave a popular festival were left sweltering in their cars for as many as nine hours after a major traffic bungle caused ...

“Regarding the exist traffic, whilst there were some elements out of our control and waiting periods cannot entirely be avoided when large numbers of cars are wanting to leave at the same time, we do acknowledge there is a need to look for solutions to improve this process for next year.” “We’d like to thank those who waited for extended periods of time in the head for your patience and wish to apologise once again to those impacted,” the statement read. “We are experiencing traffic delays getting out of the festival today due to the influx of cars exiting the festival, as well as general holiday traffic on the roads,” they wrote. In a later update, organisers said that all cars had finally exited the festival by 6pm and said they would look for solutions to avoid this problem in the future. “It sounds like it’s easier to get out of prison than it is to escape Beyond the Valley.” “There doesn’t seem to be any traffic control, and no one has managed to move in hours,” she told the

On New Year's Day, 35000 people were trying to leave the event, but were caught in a bottleneck.

“Our first year at our new home was overall an incredibly successful and smoothly run event. “All cars safely exited the festival site by 6pm today. “Regarding the exit traffic, whilst there were some elements out of our control and waiting periods cannot be entirely avoided when large numbers of cars are wanting to leave at the same time, we do acknowledge there is a need to look for solutions to improve this process for next year.” We are grateful to our patrons for being so well-behaved and respectful as well as our wonderful staff who made the festival what it was. We’d like to thank those who waited for extended periods of time in the heat for your patience and wish to apologise once again to those impacted,” a statement posted to social media read. Temperatures reached 35C on Sunday and the revellers were stuck in the heat for the entire day.