Kylie Parker Passmore and Chris Passmore identified as Booubyjan crash victims

A couple, killed in a horror highway crash on the Mother’s Day weekend, were expecting a baby, heartbroken loved ones have revealed. UPDATES, TRIBUTES.

Tributes are flowing for a couple and their unborn baby after they were killed in a horror rural highway crash on the Mother’s Day weekend.

Rockhampton’s Kylie Parker Passmore, 42, and her husband Chris Passmore, 39, were travelling along the Burnett Hwy at Booubyjan, west of Gympie, on Friday afternoon, when their black SUV drove into a tree at around 5.30pm.

A Queensland Ambulance spokesperson said both Ms Parker and Mr Passmore suffered critical injuries and died at the scene.

The tragedy happened just two days before Mother’s Day, and left Mrs Parker Passmore’s two primary school-aged children without their mother and stepfather.

On Wednesday, Mr Passmore’s cousin, Shannon Silvester, told the Gympie Times the couple were also expecting their first child together in December.

Chris Passmore, 39, and Kylie Parker, 42, were expecting their first child in December 2022 when they were killed in a double fatality crash at Booubyjan. Photo: Facebook

They were travelling to visit her in Bundaberg, but never made their destination.

“I don’t know why they were on (the Burnett Hwy) because they always travel the coast road,” she said.

“When I got the phone call telling us that Kylie and Chris were in a car crash and were told both didn’t make it I started balling my eyes out.

“I still can’t get my head around that they both aren’t here it was absolutely shattering losing the two most beautiful people that I was close with.”

She said the couple came from a tight-knit family, who accepted Mrs Parker Passmore as one of their own even she married Chris.

Kylie Parker Passmore (pictured here in 2021) leaves behind two children from a previous relationship.

She described him as a “jokester” who always tried to make people laugh, and her as a “thoughtful mother”.

Family “meant everything” to the couple, she said.

Her happiest memories with them were when they shared the news they were getting married, and then when they announced Ms Parker was pregnant.

In a series of touching online tributes she described the bond with her late cousin as “unbreakable”.

“You were my favourite of all people. I’m so lost for words … and Kylie I am so happy to call you family going to love and miss you heaps,” she wrote.

A statement from Gayndah police said the couple’s Holden Captiva, which was allegedly travelling at high speed crashed into a tree off the Burnett Hwy at Booubyjan. They said the vehicle broke apart on impact.

“Still feels so unreal. My heart breaks that I won’t get to see or hear your voice and our mad phone calls we would have.”

Mr Passmore’s sister Mallina, also took to Facebook to write her own tributes to her late brother and sister in law.

“I’m going to miss you both so f***ing much … I really hope this is a bad dream,” she wrote.

A GoFundMe was created by Denise Bulman and Dawn Royes on Monday to raise money for Mr Passmore’s funeral; though a date has not been set.

“It is with a heavy heart that we kindly ask for any donations whether it be big or small to help the family give Christopher the send off he deserves,” the description read.

“Cherished and loved by many, forever In our hearts, fly high Chris.”

The Passmores were reportedly discovered by an off-duty police officer who raised the alarm.

Rockhampton couple Chris Passmore and Kylie Parker were described as “loving, caring” people who loved their family more than anything. Photo: Facebook

A report, which is also expected to question whether the couple were wearing seatbelts, will be prepared for the coroner.

Crash investigators have asked anyone who witnessed the crash or with dashcam footage of the incident to come forward.

Quote this reference number: QP2200770649.

Click here to donate to the GoFundMe

Originally published as Kylie Parker Passmore and Chris Passmore identified as Booubyjan crash victims