Video: Eight spectators killed in California as truck hits race crowd

Eight people were killed when a truck crashed into the crowd at an off road race in Southern California this weekend.

The accident occurred just after the start of the California 200 race through the Mojave desert as the first twenty vehicles cleared a jump known as "the rockpile".

According to eye witness accounts the driver of the off-road truck lost control of the vehicle on landing and rolled into the crowd.