Mojave desert racing

CALIFORNIA (GaeaTimes.com) -- 8 people were killed when a truck crashed into a crowd of spectators at an off-road race in Southern California's Mojave Desert.

LUCERNE VALLEY, Calif. - The crowd at the off-road race could almost touch the trucks as they hurtled and bounced over the desert sand.

LUCERNE VALLEY, Calif. - The California Highway Patrol says the truck driver in an off-road race crash in the California desert that killed eight people is a 28-year-old from the San Diego area.

LUCERNE VALLEY, Calif. - An off-road truck sailed off a jump and hurtled into a crowd at a race in the California desert, pinning bodies beneath it and sending others flying into a chaotic cloud of dust in a crash that killed eight people, authorities and witnesses said Sunday.