The California 200 off-road race crash killed 8 people and 12 have been wounded yesterday near Lucerne Valley, 100 miles from Los Angeles. The crash happened after one of the contending trucks, a Prerunner, wounded up upside down after a jump on many spectators.

Spokeswoman of San Bernardino County sheriff confirmed that eight people were killed and 12 more have been injured due to the crash. Most of them were brought to St. Mary’s Medical Center or to the Loma Linda University Medical Center as aided by 7 ambulances and 10 emergency aircraft who attended the incident.

The Prerunner truck was among the first 20 trucks that were queued at the very start of the race according to witnesses. Just before long the race began, the crash took place.

The driver of the Prerunner truck was not critically wounded but he had to run away in order to break away from the fury of the crowd that was set ablaze as they threw rocks to him.

It is still unknown what the grounds for the crash are. The federal Bureau of Land Management together with the California Highway Patrol is still looking into the incident.

According to the initial investigation, the audience of the race was situated within roughly 3 meters of the track. The angle about the lack of separator between the spectators and the track such as guardrails is being considered.

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