Influencer Stacey Tourout reportedly briefly survived the off-roading accident that took the lifetime of fiancé Matthew Yeomans.
Mark Jennings-Bates, a supervisor of the Kaslo Search and Rescue (SAR) group, advised People on Friday, August 15, that Tourout was nonetheless aware when the group arrived on the scene of the incident.
Jennings-Bates, nonetheless, famous that Tourout suffered a “extreme head damage,” including that “she didn't notice fairly how injured she was.” She was lifted from the world by helicopter and transferred to an ambulance that took her to a neighborhood hospital. Tourout died later that night time.
Yeomans, in the meantime, had been ejected from the car through the crash. Jennings-Bates confirmed to Folks that Yeomans had “no important indicators” when the rescue group discovered his physique.
Jennings-Bates known as the world the place the YouTube couple crashed a “backcountry path” with “fairly tough” terrain. He famous that the car fell roughly 200 meters (round 656 ft) down a “steep boulder area.” Tourout allegedly remained within the car till it got here to a cease.
“From what I perceive, it's one of many few patches of the street that doesn't have a forest on the facet,” Jennings-Bates advised the outlet. “So anyplace else, they'd've been caught by the timber — they'd've perhaps gotten a bit harm. However that is the one space the place they have been gonna go for a giant experience in the event that they did go off the facet street.”
The couple's household introduced their deaths on August 11, sharing a photograph of Tourout and Yeomans smiling whereas standing in entrance of a mountain.
“With unimaginable heartache, the households of Matthew Peter Yeomans and Stacey Tourout want to advise that we misplaced them each tragically succumbing to accidents in an offroad accident on Aug 7, 2025 within the lovely mountains of British Columbia that they cherished a lot,” the assertion shared by way of Fb learn.
Influencers Stacey Tourout and Matthew Yeomans have died in an off-roading accident. The couple's household introduced the information on Monday, August 11, alongside a photograph of the twosome smiling whereas posing in entrance of a mountain. “With unimaginable heartache, the households of Matthew Peter Yeomans and Stacey Tourout want to advise that we misplaced […]
The message continued, “Please preserve us and them in your ideas and prayers as we navigate this devastating finish to an incredible Love Story. They're collectively eternally as we knew they'd at all times be.”
The deaths of the pair, who ran the YouTube channel Toyota World Runners, was confirmed by Kaslo SAR. The group claimed that rescuers have been known as to the scene for an off-road motorized vehicle accident on August 7 round 7:30 native time.
“So it was on a forestry street, someplace within the mountains, and fairly an extended methods north within the valley up in direction of … the village of Trout Lake,” Jennings-Bates advised Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC), noting that rescuers had an correct location for the incident.
Jennings-Bates continued, “Our groups have been in a position to get to them effectively. It's an extended journey, however they obtained there effectively. In order that was very, very useful. And naturally that implies that the helicopter pilot may additionally fly straight to the vacation spot with confidence that he was going to seek out them.”
