WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Seven people were killed early on Saturday when a car ploughed into roadside spectators watching a high-speed street race in a town near Washington, according to media reports.
The large sedan crashed into the crowd that had gathered towatch the race along a highway in Accokeek, Maryland, 20 miles(30 km) south of Washington, killing six of them, theWashington Post said.
A passenger in the car was also killed. The driver was oneof four people injured in the crash, which occurred at around 3a.m. EST (8 a.m. British time), the paper said.
"It was a very horrific scene with the number ofindividuals in the road at one time and the amount of debris,"the Post quoted Cpl. Clinton Copeland of Prince George's CountyPolice Department as saying.
Copeland said police were investigating the possibilitythat other drivers had been involved in the crash and fled thescene, and that it was too early to determine any criminalcharges, the paper said.
(Reporting by Mohammad Zargham, editing by Vicki Allen)
