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This. >> >> i think what happens in the amateur events, there's not a lot of money or staff to go along and enforce a 50-mile-long track. what might happen is you say, look, unfortunately we can't have spectators at these amateur events because we can't police it. it really is pretty scary. i was in the baja 500 and it was really dusty and i was driving this truck and we were going up a hill and the dust cloud overcame us and i couldn't see anything. as we were approaching people were running toward the truck. i couldn't see so i hit the brakes. i was afraid i was going to hit someone. >> the ...

>> this sanctioned offroad vehicle race, sanctioned by the racing association, it is called the california 200, similar to the baja 500 and just opened in racing. usually the sanctioning body requires the spectators be at least 125 feet away from the track itself and in this instance, we don't know why they were allowed to be that close to the action. >> and you confirm people were like ten feet away? that is the report we have. >> that's correct and we have several pictures of the incident before the accident happened indicating that the spectators were on both sides of the track, maybe 10-25...

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