The popular motorsports park where a 9-year-old girl tragically lost her life in a “freak accident” in June has now closed permanently amid a lawsuit over her death.
Lake Elsinore Motorsports Park announced the closure in a social media post on Saturday evening, saying that due to the property owners being brought into the lawsuit, they decided to close the park for good.
“Due to a lawsuit from a tragic accident that occurred in June, the property owner has terminated our agreement as they are being brought into it as well,” the post read in part. “It would be in their best interest to have the park closed.”
The post went on to say that the property owners and the City of Lake Elsinore have been “very good to deal with” throughout the park’s existence.
“While there have been many challenges along the way, we have enjoyed operating the track very much,” park officials said. “We were very lucky to have such a terrific group of customers as well as such fine people working at the track.”
A lawsuit has been filed in the wake of Brooke Carlton’s death at the park on the morning of June 2. She died after she and another child on an electric motorbike collided on the track, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office stated.
Carlton, a native of Vista in San Diego County, was pronounced dead at a local hospital shortly after the accident; the child she collided with was treated for minor injuries at the scene.
In a GoFundMe set up to help pay for funeral expenses, she was described as “a total spitfire that knew what she wanted.”
