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3 killed in northeast Denver crash, police say

The crash happened near 56th Avenue and Potomac Way, police said at 12:53 a.m. Sunday

Lauren Penington of Denver Post portrait in Denver on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)DENVER, CO - OCTOBER 10: Denver Post reporter Katie Langford. (Photo By Patrick Traylor/The Denver Post)
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Three people died early Sunday morning in a crash on the northern edge of Denver’s Montbello neighborhood, police said.

The Denver Police Department about the single-car crash near 56th Avenue and Potomac Way at 12:53 a.m. Sunday. In a , police said the three people inside the car had died.

The identified those killed as Ariana, Barrera-Ybarra, 22; Raul Fraire, 23; and Cristian Barrera-Ybarra, 28. All three died from multiple blunt force injuries, and their deaths were ruled accidental, according to the agency.

That intersection is next to the .

Additional information about the crash, including the cause, was not immediately available on Sunday.

Updated at 2:34 p.m. Nov. 21, 2025: This article was updated to add the names of the people who were killed.

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