Chilling new details emerge after missing parents were found dead inside their car next to their three surviving kids on a remote Outback road on Christmas Day
- Parents Cindy Braddock and Jake Day killed in horror crash in Western Australia
- Two-month old baby was also found inside car and suffered serious head injury
- Their two other children, aged two and five, understood to be in stable condition
Photographs have emerged from the scene of a horror Christmas Day crash that has ripped apart the lives of a young family.
Cindy Braddock, 25, Jake Day, 28, and their children, all under the age of five, were reported missing when they didn’t show up to a Christmas celebration.
They’d last been seen leaving Northam, a town in Western Australia’s Wheatbelt about 100km east of Perth, at 1am on Christmas Day.
Jake Day (l) and Cindy Braddock (r) were killed when their car rolled 10km from home. Picture: Facebook
The family was making the 200km journey back home to Kondinin before to spend what was left of Christmas with Mr Day’s mother.
‘My understanding was they left Northam early so Jack could be with his mum on Christmas,’ his cousin Michael Read told 7NEWS.
However, on Tuesday evening police said the family’s maroon Land Rover had been found by another family member, 10 kilometres from the town.
‘(I’m) pretty broken, not only have I lost my cousin, but one of my close friends. . . basically, we’re just taking one day at a time,’ Mr Read said.
The car rolled near Kondinin killing the two parents. Picture: 7 News
Ms Braddock and Mr Day were both found dead inside the vehicle.
Two of the children, a five-year-old girl and two-year-old boy, were outside the vehicle, while a two-month-old baby was still inside.
The youngest child suffered a significant head injury and is in a serious condition.
The other two children are understood to be in stable condition.
Jake Day. Picture: WA Police.
Cindy Braddock. Picture: WA Police.
Mr Read said the community will be devastated by the loss of the young parents.
‘They were really good parents, always good to have a joke and a beer with,’ he said.
‘They are going to be pretty missed by everybody – not just family and friends but the community as well.
He described his cousin as a ‘bubbly person’ who was just ‘someone you could always get along with’.
As for Ms Braddock, he said she was ‘overprotective of her children’ who ‘always want mum’.
The family were reported missing by family on Christmas Day when they did not arrive to a family event. Picture: WA Police.
Police had organised an ‘urgent’ search for the young family, believing they were travelling towards Kondinin.
Family members of Mr Day or Ms Braddock took to social media to seek answers.
‘They left Northam on Xmas Eve to go home to Kondinin,’ one family member posted on Facebook.
‘No one has seen or heard from them since and they haven’t made it home.’
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