<p>One of the cars in the California 200 race ploughed into the crowd at high speed after careering over a jump just half-an-hour after the start Saturday night, the Daily Mail reported.<br /><br />The driver was thought to be among the dead. Other victims were crushed beneath the car. <br />The race was being held in Soggy Dry Lake Bed near the city of Lucerne Valley, 160 km northeast of Los Angeles.<br /><br />David Conklin, a photographer who was covering the event, said the car had been among the first 20 off the line and had just gone over a jump called the 'rockpile'.<br /><br />"I heard screaming and shouting", he said. "I saw one woman with a major head wound lying in a pool of blood. Someone else was crushed beneath the car."<br /><br />Seven ambulances were sent to the scene, a fire official said. Tens of thousands go to watch the California 200, where dune buggy-style cars leap jumps and other obstacles around and off-road course. There is little or no barrier between the spectators and the cars as they career around the course.<br /><br />Off-road racing is a format of racing where various classes of specially modified vehicles (including cars, motorcycles and buggies) compete in races through off-road environments.<br /></p>
<p>One of the cars in the California 200 race ploughed into the crowd at high speed after careering over a jump just half-an-hour after the start Saturday night, the Daily Mail reported.<br /><br />The driver was thought to be among the dead. Other victims were crushed beneath the car. <br />The race was being held in Soggy Dry Lake Bed near the city of Lucerne Valley, 160 km northeast of Los Angeles.<br /><br />David Conklin, a photographer who was covering the event, said the car had been among the first 20 off the line and had just gone over a jump called the 'rockpile'.<br /><br />"I heard screaming and shouting", he said. "I saw one woman with a major head wound lying in a pool of blood. Someone else was crushed beneath the car."<br /><br />Seven ambulances were sent to the scene, a fire official said. Tens of thousands go to watch the California 200, where dune buggy-style cars leap jumps and other obstacles around and off-road course. There is little or no barrier between the spectators and the cars as they career around the course.<br /><br />Off-road racing is a format of racing where various classes of specially modified vehicles (including cars, motorcycles and buggies) compete in races through off-road environments.<br /></p>