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.