Photo: GoFundMe
A 9-year-old motocross rider was killed during what was described as a "freak accident" while racing in California on Sunday (June 2), the New York Post reports.
Brooke Carlton was competing at Lake Elsinore Motorsports Park when she was struck by another juvenile rider just prior to 10:00 a.m. local time, according to her family and officials. The child was unconscious and good Samaritans tended to her before emergency responders arrived at the scene and rushed her to Inland Valley Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead at 11:24 a.m., the Riverside County Sheriff's Office confirmed in a press release.
The other child involved in the crash also received treatment at the scene for minor injuries, the department confirmed. Carlton's parents and friends of the family announced her death in a GoFundMe page.
“Yesterday, the good Lord called out dear Brook Lily to heaven after a freak accident at a local motocross track,” Jason and Angie Carlton wrote. “Our entire family is still trying to understand why our Brookie, but we firmly believe that God needed her and called her home to be with him.”
Carlton was an ambassador for the motorsports apparel brand Go Fast Girls and was quoted as saying she loved “to be out on the track competing with other girls and going fast" on her profile page on the company's website.