AURORA | A passenger in a rideshare vehicle was killed in a car-crash Monday night after another car ran a red light and t-boned the rideshare car in the intersection, police said.
Police said the unidentified ride-share car was passing through the intersection at East Sixth Avenue and Laredo Street at about 8 p.m. when the driver of a Toyota Rav4 ran the red light, broadsiding the rideshare car.
“The collision caused the driver’s side rear passenger door to be ripped off and the rear passenger to be thrown out of the vehicle,” Aurora police spokesperson Gabby Easterwood said in a statement. “Both the driver and rear passenger were transported to the hospital where the rear passenger, an adult male later died.”
Police said it was unclear at this point whether either the driver or the passenger were wearing seat belts, and the condition of the driver was not reported.
Police said the driver of the Rav4 “is cooperating with the investigation,” and that neither “drugs nor alcohol seem to be a contributing factor at this time.”
Police did not report on what if any charges might be filed.
We make mistakes.
Such is why we have seat-belts and shoulder harnesses.
Passengers in taxæ and rideshare vehicles often think thathey need not wear seatbelts.
Two NYC librarians headed to DIA after The NationaLibrary Convention in Denver were not wearing seatbelts when their taxi driver drove off the road.
They botheedlessly died.
The driver is cooperating?!? Wait, let me understand…. this driver chose not to allude the police ? He chose to follow police directives? And he chose not to toss/show/ threaten police with a gun?!?
This sucker of a cooperative driver sure missed his own Kilyn Lewis moment to sue the Aurora Police for millions of dollars.