New details are emerging about the deaths of influencers Stacey Tourout and Matthew Yeomans following their fatal off-roading accident.
Mark Jennings-Bates, a manager of the Kaslo Search and Rescue (SAR) team, told Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) that the couple fell downhill about 200 meters, which is roughly 656 feet. He claimed that Tourout and Yeomans rolled “many, many times” during the incident.
Jennings-Bates claimed that the rescue was “challenging” due to the uphill trek to locate the couple but said his team “efficiently” reached them. He also alleged that the team has responded to several calls around the area where the incident took place.
Tourout and Yeomans’ family announced their deaths on Monday, August 11. Alongside the post, the pair’s loved ones uploaded an image of Tourout and Yeoman smiling while standing in front of a mountain.
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,” the statement shared via Facebook read.
The message continued, “Please keep us and them in your thoughts and prayers as we navigate this devastating end to an amazing Love Story. They are together forever as we knew they would always be.”
Yeomans and Tourout ran the YouTube channel Toyota World Runners, which had more than 200,000 subscribers. Kaslo SAR confirmed their deaths, claiming that rescuers were called to the scene for an off-road motor vehicle accident on August 7 around 7:30 local time.
” So it was on a forestry road, somewhere in the mountains, and quite a long ways north in the valley up towards … the village of Trout Lake,” Jennings-Bates told the outlet, noting that rescuers had an accurate location for the incident. “Our teams were able to get to them efficiently. It’s a long journey, but they got there efficiently. So that was very, very helpful. And of course that means that the helicopter pilot could also fly straight to the destination with confidence that he was going to find them.”
According to Jennings-Bates, one of the victims had no vital signs in the vehicle, while the other was taken to a hospital and later died. Jennings-Bates claimed that the exact cause of the accident was unclear but suspected the pair lost control on the terrain.