Cory Smith was on the clock as a repossession agent when a car speeding from Chicago police ran a red light and collided with his SUV before plowing into a building and ejecting a passenger who died early Tuesday on the South Side. "I was making a turn [and] I got nailed," Smith, 44, told the Chicago Sun-Times hours after the crash. "Looking at the car, I probably should’ve been worse or dead." Around 2 a.m., members of a robbery team were on patrol when they saw two people believed to be armed enter a black 2007 Lexus ES in the 5500 block of South Pulaski Road, police said.Officers began pursuing the sedan, which fled at a "high rate of speed" for about four miles before running a red light, smashing into Smith's 2024 Kia Soul and hitting a building about four miles away in the 3500 block of South Ashland Avenue, police said. A male passenger of the Lexus was ejected and landed on the sidewalk among the rubble of the partially collapsed building, according to a police report. The unidentified passenger was declared dead on the scene at 2:19 a.m. while a 23-year-old West Side man behind the wheel was taken to Stroger Hospital with a leg injury, police said. The scene where a Lexus being pursued by police crashed into an SUV and a commercial building at 3455 S. Ashland Ave. early Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024.Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times Smith suffered injuries to his ankle and left arm, but otherwise said he was "very lucky."Smith, of Hammond, Ind., was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center where he was treated for his injuries. No officers were injured and the crash was being investigated by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability. Two guns were recovered and no charges have been announced.