Influencers Stacey Tourout and Matthew Yeomans have died in an off-roading accident.
The couple’s family announced the news on Monday, August 11, alongside a photo of the twosome smiling while posing 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.”
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The deaths of the couple — who ran the YouTube channel Toyota World Runners and had more than 200,000 subscribers — were confirmed by Kaslo Search and Rescue (SAR), according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).
Kaslo SAR confirmed that rescuers had been called to the scene of an off-road motor vehicle incident around 7:30 local time on August 7.
“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,” Mark Jennings-Bates, a manager with Kaslo SAR told the outlet, noting that rescuers had an accurate location for the incident.
He continued, “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.”
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Jennings-Bates claimed that one of the victims had no vital signs in the vehicle, while the other was taken to the hospital and later died. He added that he was unsure whether the couple were filming at the time of the accident.
Jennings-Bates noted that the exact cause of the accident is unclear, but he suspected there was a loss of control on the terrain.
The pair, who got engaged in 2024, shared their last Instagram post days before their death. “Really just soaking up all of these Vancouver island summer juices,” the caption read. “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.”
