27 have died on off-track courses

At least 27 people have died at off-track racing events in the United States in the last 20 years, including 10 spectators, according to Observer records.

1992

Terry Herman, a Las Vegas driving school owner, crashed traveling more than 200 mph during the Nevada Open Road Challenge, at which cars compete on closed public roads.

1992

Jonel Broscanc, from Glendale in Queens, N.Y., died when the Audi he was driving on a road course slid off a sharp curve along a remote forest road near Wellsboro, Pa. The car hit a tree on the driver's side.

1993

David Kuhn, a Massachusetts public television journalist who raced vintage English cars as a hobby, died on a Schenley Park, Penn., road course after his sports car veered off the road and pinned him against a tree.

1993

John Clark was taking spectator Eric Lindquist for a ride on a makeshift road course in an Irvine, Calif., amusement park parking lot when his 1965 Lotus Elan crashed into a grove of trees, killing both.

1994

Acting as the co-driver in her boyfriend's Mazda, Rosemay Tindall died when the car swerved off a forest road course near Olympia, Wash., and hit a tree.

1994

Mark Rose, from Newhall, Calif., and the publisher of Off-Road Magazine, was reporting a story as a passenger in the Brush Run 101 truck race in Crandon, Wis. A truck passed the one he was riding in, and the two collided.

1995

Mark Gleckl, from Dana Point, Calif., was working as an ESPN cameraman at an off-road California race when drivers bumped, sending one car through a fence and killing him.

1998

Carl Merrill suffered a heart attack during the first stage of an off-road rally in Arizona.

2000

Larry Deaton, an auto repair shop owner from Clovis, Calif., died when another driver hit his stalled car broadside at a Laughlin, Nev., desert course.

2000

Sean Kovacs Jr., a Norwalk, Conn., mechanic and volunteer firefighter, was navigating a Pennsylvania road rally in his Toyota when it went off course and struck a tree. The driver had minor injuries.

2001

Chandler Bruning, from Colorado Springs, Colo., died during Pikes Peak International Hill Climb qualifying when his car missed a turn, went airborne and was impaled on a tree.

2002

Driver Patrick Jemison and his passenger, Virginia Lynn Davis, were killed in a crash during a time-trial competition of the Audi Car Club Hill Climb Race on a Nevada highway, according to a news report. Jemison's Dodge Viper slid off the roadway and fell about 250 feet down a ravine.

2003

Driver Mark Lovell and navigator Roger Freeman, in the first car away from the starting line, went off the road near the start of the stage and their Subaru Impreza hit a tree in the Oregon Trail Pro Rally. They were dead at the scene.

2003

Spectators Martin Reidy and Peter Smith died when a car competing in a high-speed performance rally in Pennsylvania left a remote forest road and slammed into them. The vehicle went ran off the road and struck the men, then sheared off a tree and stopped, police said

2009

Diver Richard Shafer died after his car went off the road at the Crow Mountain Hill Climb in Alabama.

2010

Eight spectators killed when an off-road truck sailed off a jump and hurtled into a crowd at a race in the California desert, pinning bodies beneath it and sending others flying.

The dead were identified as Andrew Theirren, 22; Zachary Freeman, 24; Brian Wolfin, 27; Anthony Sanchez, 23; Aaron Farkas, 25; Danica Frantzich, 20; and Dustin Malson, 24.

The name of the eighth victim, a 34-year-old man, had not been released.

Note:

At least 20 racing deaths have happened in North Carolina in the last 20 years. South Carolina has had at least five deaths in the last 10 years.