Drag race dangers

Drag-racing has long been a dangerous problem in the Southland. But this horrible crash over the weekend, reports The Times' David Haldane, is likely to bring new attention:

Southern California's illegal drag racing culture took another bloody turn early Sunday in Lancaster, when a passing driver veered into a crowd of spectators, leaving two men dead and three men hospitalized. Some onlookers then jumped into their cars, chased down the driver and held him for deputies, authorities said. The driver was booked on suspicion of felony hit and run. "It was a pretty horrendous scene," Sgt. Greg Minster of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said of the early-morning incident in the 4500 block of West Avenue G in Lancaster.