INTERNATIONAL NEWS - An eight-year-old girl has died after crashing her junior drag racing car on a track in Western Australia.
Anita Board was on a solo "test run" when her vehicle hit a concrete barrier at the Perth Motorplex, police said.
Paramedics treated her at the scene on Saturday before taking her to hospital, where she died a day later.
The girl had been attempting to gain her licence for junior dragster racing, the Australia National Drag Racing Association (Andra) said.
She had just turned eight - the minimum age required to race under official rules - and was driving a 210cc dragster, local media reported.
As a result of the accident, Western Australia has now suspended junior racing at the Perth Motorplex, the state's only drag racing arena.
