A vehicle plowed into a crowd at a popular off-road race in the Southern California desert on Saturday night, killing eight people and leaving 12 wounded, authorities said. The accident happened shortly before 8 p.m. at the California 200 race, said San Bernardino County sheriff's spokeswoman Cindy Bachman. Bachman said 12 people were injured, several seriously. Most were airlifted from the area to Loma Linda University Hospital, the Associated Press reported. The race was held in Soggy Dry Lake Bed near the city of Lucerne Valley in the Mojave Desert, 100 miles (160 kilometers) northeast of Los Angeles.
