IDAHO FALLS — Nearly ten years after losing his 7-year-old daughter in a devastating car crash, a local father is using his own experience with grief to help others navigate unimaginable loss.

Ashton Holbrook remembers the tragedy like it was yesterday. His wife, Elena Holbrook, was driving home to Blackfoot with their four young children. It was two days before Thanksgiving 2015 and they had all just enjoyed lunch at Five Guys in Pocatello.

Elena was driving north on Interstate 15 near Fort Hall when a semi-truck heading south blew a tire, crossed the median, and collided with their pickup truck.

“I remember getting a call from a bystander telling me my wife had been in an accident,” Ashton Holbrook tells EastIdahoNews.com. “By the time I reached the freeway, traffic was backed up for

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