Missing Western Australian parents Cindy Braddock and Jake Day found dead in car, three kids survive

The family's car rolled near Kondinin killing both parents, leaving the three children orphaned. Photo / 7 News

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 100 kilometres east of Perth, at 1am on Christmas Day.

The family was making the 200km journey back home to Kondinin to spend what was left of Christmas with Day’s mother.

Jake Day, left, and Cindy Braddock, right, were killed when their car rolled 10km from home. Photo / Facebook

“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,” Read said.

Braddock and Day were both found dead inside the vehicle.

The car rolled near Kondinin, killing the two parents. Photo / 7 News

Two of the children, a five-year-old girl and a 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 a stable condition.

Jake Day and Cindy Braddock were found dead in their car after it rolled on Christmas Day while they were driving in Western Australia. Their three young children survived. Photos / WA Police

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 Braddock, he said she was “overprotective of her children” who “always want mum”.

Cindy Braddock, 25, and Jake Day,28, were reported missing with their three children by family on Christmas Day when they did not arrive to a family event in Western Australia. Photo / WA Police

Police had organised an “urgent” search for the young family, believing they were travelling towards Kondinin.

Family members of Day or 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.”