Idaho State Police are still investigating a fatal accident that occurred at 3:32 p.m. Sunday, April 23, 2023, near the East Magic Road turnoff on State Highway 75 in Blaine County.<\/p>\n
A 39-year-old male, of Hailey, was driving a 2013 Toyota Corolla northbound on SH75 when he apparently crossed the centerline and collided head-on with a Chevy Silverado. His passenger, Gloria Estrado, 39, also of Hailey, was pronounced dead at the scene. A juvenile was driving the 2003 Chevy Silverado pickup southbound on SH75.<\/p>\n
The driver of the Corolla was transported via ground ambulance to a local hospital. The driver and passenger in the Corolla were wearing their seatbelts. The driver and passenger in the Silverado were not wearing their seatbelts.<\/p>\n
The northbound and southbound lanes of SH75 were blocked for approximately four-and-a-half hours.<\/p>\n
The driver of the Silverado was not transported; however, his passenger, a 46-year-old Shoshone man, was taken by air ambulance to Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise.<\/p>\n
The accident was the fifth head-on crash fatality on Highway 75 between Bellevue and the Blaine-Lincoln County line since 2018. Most of these accidents involve crossing the centerline. This number does not include incidents that have occurred at Timmerman Hill, a high crash location at the intersection of US20 and SH75.<\/p>\n
According to a study done in 2016, that intersection is ranked as 16th on Idaho Transportation Department\u2019s High Accident Location list in District 4, and 321st statewide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Idaho State Police are still investigating a fatal accident that occurred at 3:32 p.m. Sunday, April 23, 2023, near the East Magic Road turnoff on State Highway 75 in Blaine County. A 39-year-old male, of Hailey, was driving a 2013 Toyota Corolla northbound on SH75 when he apparently crossed the centerline and collided head-on with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,63,76,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-accident","8":"category-bellevue","9":"category-emergency-services","10":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19542,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19538\/revisions\/19542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}