California 200 Race Crash Video?

An off-road truck sailed off a jump, lost control and plowed into a crowd, killing eight people and injuring 12 others, at a Mojave Desert racing event in California.
The accident occurred Saturday just as the desert race, called the California 200, was starting. From initial reports, the still-unnamed driver of the truck lost control of his powerful offroad vehicle when it went airborne and landed on top of spectators who had come to witness a rugged competition that began at 8 p.m. in the Lucerne Valley.

It took rescue crews more than half an hour to reach the crash, and spectators including off-duty police and firefighters helped the injured and placed blankets over the dead.

The driver survived the crash but had to be whisked away from the scene because people were throwing rocks at him. The California Highway Patrol immediately launched an investigation of the accident. “People didn’t have much of a chance … to get out of the way,” describes CHP Officer Joaquin Zubieta.

Witnesses to the crash described a chaotic scene where the victims had no chance to flee from the out-of-control car that plowed into fans.

The California 200 is a 200-mile off-road race that occurs in the Mojave Desert close to the city of Lucerne Valley, just 100 miles away from Los Angeles. As with most off-road races of this type, there are no barriers separating spectators from race vehicles that can rocket by at near triple-digit speeds while facing obstacles like jumps that are designed to get all four wheels off the ground.

Video of the California 200 Race Crash.