YouTuber Stacey Tourout Initially Survived Off-Roading Accident with Fiancé After Automotive Fell 656 Ft

The couple — who ran the Toyota World Runners account on YouTube — was killed in a tragic accident in British Columbia on August 7.

Following the tragic accident, Kaslo Search and Rescue’s Mark Jennings-Bates informed the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, or CBC, stated one passenger was pronounced lifeless on the scene, and the opposite was taken to the hospital, the place they succumbed to their accidents.

In a brand new interview with PEOPLE, Jennings-Bates — the Communication Supervisor for Kaslo Search and Rescue — stated rescuers discovered Tourout nonetheless acutely aware after they responded to the scene. Whereas she initially survived, Tourout suffered “a extreme head damage,” per Jennings-Bates.

“She did not notice fairly how injured she was,” he stated of Tourout, who was transported to a hospital, the place she later handed away that night time.

As Yeomans, Jennings-Bates stated he had been thrown from the automobile, including that rescuers discovered “no very important indicators” after they arrived on the scene.

He beforehand informed the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, or CBC, that the couple was discovered “on a forestry street, someplace within the mountains, and fairly an extended methods north within the valley up in the direction of … the village of Trout Lake,” which is the West Kootenay area of British Columbia.

Whereas talking with PEOPLE, Jennings-Bates stated the crash web site was a “backcountry path” with “fairly robust” terrain, including that Yeomans and Tourout’s automobile fell down a “steep boulder subject,” falling an estimated 200 meters, which is about 656 toes.

In response to Jennings-Bates, Tourout was nonetheless within the automobile when it stopped.

“From what I perceive, it is one of many few patches of the street that does not have a forest on the facet,” he stated to PEOPLE. “So anyplace else, they might’ve been caught by the timber — they might’ve perhaps gotten a bit harm. However that is the one space the place they had been gonna go for a giant trip in the event that they did go off the facet street.”

Following the accident, Jennings-Bates informed the CBC that rescue groups “had been capable of get to them effectively,” noting that the helicopter pilot was capable of “fly straight to the vacation spot.” He shared with PEOPLE that the rescue groups consisted of two floor and one air workforce, saying the rescue workforce had to make use of ropes to get to the couple’s our bodies.

Tourout’s household introduced the information of Tourout and Yeomans’ deaths in an announcement posted to Facebook on August 10.

“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 liked a lot,” Coleen Tourout, Stacey’s mom, wrote.

“Please maintain us and them in your ideas and prayers as we navigate this devastating finish to an incredible Love Story,” the assertion added. “They’re collectively endlessly as we knew they might all the time be.”

Tourout and Yeomans’ YouTube account had greater than 200,000 followers, whereas one other 75K adopted their adventures on Instagram.

The 2 declare to have constructed the “world’s first Land Cruiser Chinook in 100 days,” which they had been seemingly driving around the globe, sharing movies from their travels. “We’re documenting our construct, the journey plan, and hope to go away you with knowledge and inspiration for why we journey and the way you’ll find success doing the identical – in your personal manner,” they shared on their YouTube web page.

In another Facebook post, a good friend of the couple, Colin Stuart, stated he was with them when the accident occurred.