A California motorcross park where a 9-year-old girl died in June is closing its doors due to legal issues, the park recently announced.
Lake Elsinore Motorsports Park is about 73 miles southeast of Los Angeles. Calling itself the largest track in Southern California, the park said on its Facebook page that it has seven tracks for riders to choose from.
The park announced the closure Saturday and said the decision was made “due to a lawsuit from a tragic accident that occurred in June.” The property owner made the decision, the park said.
The closure comes after 9-year-old Brooke Carlton was killed at the park in early June. She was riding an electric motorbike on a “track designated for off-road vehicles” around 10 a.m. that day when “another juvenile also riding an off-road motorbike” hit her, the Riverside County Sheriff previously shared in a news release.
Deputies rushed to the scene and found the girl unconscious while people in the area performed “life-saving measures” on her. She was taken to a hospital, where she was later pronounced dead, according to the sheriff’s office.