BOISE (Idaho Statesman) – A year after a local paramedic, father and husband died in a crash along U.S. Highway 20, the 23-year-old Idaho driver involved in the accident has been charged.
In January 2025, Eleazar Puente Perez was driving a blue 2005 Toyota Tundra westbound on U.S. 20 when an ice patch made him lose control of his vehicle as he passed a semi and “unsafely” crossed back into the eastbound lane, crashing head-on into Kody Hansen’s red 2004 Toyota Prius, according to a probable cause affidavit obtained by the Idaho Statesman.
Puente Perez was traveling faster than the highway’s posted speed limit of 65 mph, the affidavit said. Hansen died at the scene…