Racing Called Factor in O.C. Crash Killing 2

Two men were killed early Sunday in Fountain Valley when their GMC pickup, which witnesses said was racing with two other drivers, collided with two uninvolved vehicles and burst into flames.

The two were ejected and pronounced dead at the scene. They were not identified, police said

According to witnesses, police said, the men in the truck, speeding north on Brookhurst Street, had been in an altercation with people in two other vehicles going the same direction.

The GMC truck was seen racing in and out of traffic with the other vehicles for about a mile before the 2 a.m. crash, police said. The truck jumped the raised median into oncoming traffic, striking head-on a pickup driven by Juan Flores, 24, of Stanton and a car driven by an unidentified teenage girl from Torrance.

The Fountain Valley Fire Department provided first aid and extinguished the fire.

Flores was taken to UCI Medical Center in Orange with internal injuries and a broken arm, where he was listed in critical condition, police said. The Torrance teenager, who was not seriously injured, was treated and released at the scene.

The two other vehicles, whose passengers had been in a dispute with the men in the GMC pickup, fled, police said. Investigators were following several leads.