New Details Emerge About Influencer Couple’s Fatal Off-Roading Accident

New details have emerged about the tragic deaths of content creators Stacey Tourout and Matthew Yeomans.

The pair, who ran the YouTube channel Toyota World Runners, were found at the scene of a motor vehicle rollover on Aug. 7 in a remote area of the West Kootenay region in British Columbia.

When the Kaslo Search and Rescue team arrived at the site of the incident, they discovered that Tourout had initially survived the accident and was still conscious, the team’s Communication Manager Mark Jennings-Bates told PEOPLE, though she had suffered “a severe head injury.”

“She didn’t realize quite how injured she was,” Jennings-Bates told PEOPLE.

Tourout was lifted from the scene by helicopter and then transferred to an ambulance that took her to a local hospital, where she later died that night.

In the crash, Yeomans had been ejected from the vehicle, and when the rescue team arrived at his body, he had “no vital signs,” Jennings-Bates confirmed.

On the pair’s YouTube channel, which they began in February 2020 and had grown to over 200,000 subscribers, Tourout and Yeomans documented their off-roading adventures.

Jennings-Bates described the site of the crash as a “backcountry trail” with terrain that was “pretty rough.” He estimated that the vehicle fell roughly 200 meters, estimated to be roughly 656 feet, down a “steep boulder field” as a result of the incident and that Tourout remained in the vehicle until it came to a stop.

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“From what I understand, it’s one of the few patches of the road that doesn’t have a forest on the side,” Jennings-Bates told PEOPLE. “So anywhere else, they would’ve been caught by the trees — they would’ve maybe gotten a bit hurt. But this is the one area where they were gonna go for a big ride if they did go off the side road.”

After receiving notice of the incident, Kaslo Search and Rescue dispatched two ground teams and one air team for the rescue efforts. Given the ruggedness of the terrain, Jennings-Bates said, it required ropes to reach the bodies of the victims.

Following the news of Tourout and Yeoman’s death, Tourout’s mother posted a touching tribute to Facebook, writing, “With unimaginable heartache, the families of Matthew Peter Yeomans and Stacey Tourout would like to advise that we lost them both tragically succumbing to injuries in an offroad accident on Aug 7, 2025 in the beautiful mountains of British Columbia that they loved so much.”

“Please keep us and them in your thoughts and prayers as we navigate this devastating end to an amazing Love Story,” she continued. “They are together forever as we knew they would always be.”

According to a Facebook post by Yeomans, he and Tourout got engaged in April 2024 while on a road trip traveling the length of the Americas. He asked his fiancée-to-be to marry him, set against the incredible South American mountains, drawing a ring on her finger with a marker after he left the jewelry at their home in Canada.

“I asked Stacey to be my forever!” the late influencer wrote. “The moment was perfectly US.”

The pair shared their final video on July 31, chronicling some of their time off-roading in Vancouver Island, B.C. The pair also posted an update for their followers on Instagram from Vancouver Island six days before the tragedy.

“Really just soaking up all of these Vancouver island summer juices,” they wrote. “Our first summer in a few years where we get to experience the seasons change and the joy the sun brings us soggy rainforest dogs as we come out of hiding.”