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Background: The scene of the crash in Aurora, Colorado, in July 2025 (KUSA/YouTube). Inset: Olvin Lidenis Carcamo-Meza (Aurora Police Department).
In a tragic incident in Colorado, a teenager has confessed to causing a deadly car crash after authorities stated he sped through a red light at over 120 mph in a zone limited to 40 mph.
Olvin Lidenis Carcamo-Meza, 19, entered a guilty plea for two counts of first-degree assault with violent crime enhancements, according to a report by The Denver Post. Initially, he faced charges of vehicular homicide for the incident.
The victims of this horrific crash have been identified by Denver’s Fox affiliate KDVR as 37-year-old Maira Zapata Ramirez and her 16-year-old daughter.
The crash occurred early in the morning on July 20, 2025, around 2:45 a.m., as Carcamo-Meza drove through the intersection of South Airport Boulevard and East Alameda Avenue in Aurora, Colorado, a suburb located just east of Denver. Zapata Ramirez and her daughter were reportedly returning home after completing an early morning newspaper delivery shift.
According to the Aurora Police Department, Carcamo-Meza was behind the wheel of a black Audi sedan traveling on South Airport Boulevard when he failed to stop at a red light. His vehicle collided with a white Hyundai sedan carrying the victims, who were traveling west along Alameda Avenue. Additionally, a Toyota sedan was also struck while waiting in a turn lane.
Though the Toyota driver “sustained minor injuries,” the woman and girl in the Hyundai sedan were declared dead at the scene. Carcamo-Meza himself suffered “serious” but “non-life-threatening injuries” and was taken to a local hospital.
The defendant was arrested upon his release from the hospital days later.
Authorities investigated the crash and considered speed to be a likely cause, but did “not suspect drugs or alcohol” as factors.
Police said Carcamo-Meza was driving 121 mph in a 40 mph zone when he sped through the red light and hit the Hyundai, per The Post. In addition to nullifying the vehicular homicide charges, the defendant’s plea deal also reportedly dismissed a charge of child abuse causing death.
Carcamo-Meza is scheduled to be sentenced on June 1. He faces up to 40 years in prison.