Police Describe Vehicle Sought in Fatal Crash

Police provided details Monday about the vehicle they are seeking after an illegal street race last week ended in a crash that killed a Santa Ana man and injured his three daughters.

Authorities are looking for the driver of a black Ford F-150 pickup with tinted windows and white lettering on them.

Police are not sure what role the driver had in the accident, which happened about 6:50 p.m. Friday, but “we want to catch him now, while this crime is still fresh in people’s minds,” said Sgt. Baltazar De La Riva, a spokesman for the Santa Ana Police Department.

Police said the truck was racing north on Flower Street, competing with Arturo Ortiz Jr., a 21-year-old Santa Ana resident who also was driving a Ford pickup.

After the two pickups zigzagged for more than a mile, Ortiz crashed head-on with Jose Escobar Estrada’s Ford Tempo near Flower Street and Central Avenue. Estrada, 35, died at the scene.