Just months after R&B singer Angie Stone was killed in an early morning crash on an Alabama interstate, her family has filed a lawsuit seeking damages from a trucking company, truck manufacturer and others, according to The Associated Press.
The driver of the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van — in which the 63-year-old singer, her bandmates, and entourage were passengers — lost control of the vehicle, and when he tried to steer back onto the highway, the vehicle flipped over, the lawsuit states, according to AP.
The suit, filed on Sept. 2 in an Atlanta, Georgia, state court, provides details on how Stone died in the March 1, 2025, crash.
Stone and the other occupants survived the pre-dawn rollover crash, and passersby helped five of the nine occupants crawl out of the overturned van, according to People. Stone was attempting to exit the wreck when an 18-wheeler carrying a load of sugar with a failed safety system slammed into the van, AP reported.
Stone was ejected from the vehicle and pinned under the van, where she died, according to the lawsuit. Sheila Hopkins, a relative of Stone’s, was also still inside the van and suffered injuries, the lawsuit states.
Stone “remained trapped underneath the van, where she consciously suffered until she ultimately succumbed to the fatal injuries she sustained in the collision and died,” according to People.
She was a Grammy-nominated R&B singer and member of the all-female hip-hop trio The Sequence, one of the first female groups to record a rap song. She was known for the hit song “Wish I Didn’t Miss You,” and flourished in the early 2000s as neo-soul began to dominate R&B.
She was on her way back to her Atlanta-area home after a performance at a Mardi Gras ball in Mobile, Alabama, according to People.
Hopkins and Stone’s two children, Diamond Stone and Michael D’Angelo Archer, filed the lawsuit. They’re suing the van driver, the truck driver, the man and companies who owned the van, the trucking company and the maker of the 18-wheel truck.
The suit claims that the truck’s collision avoidance system was faulty and failed to detect the van lying stationary in one lane of the interstate. The suit also claims that the truck driver was listening to music on headphones, wasn’t paying attention and never braked before slamming into the van at nearly 70 mph, according to AP.
Neither trucking company CSRT of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, or truck manufacturer Daimler Truck North America of Portland, Oregon, immediately responded to emails from AP seeking comment Thursday.
In an Instagram post before the crash, Stone, who was born in Columbia, South Carolina, had told fans she was excited about upcoming events and “getting back in the mix.”
“A lot of stuff is going on that I don’t want to just let out of the bag just yet,” she said. “But you can see that there’s a big grin on my face.”
The singer-songwriter created hits like “No More Rain (In This Cloud)” which reached No. 1 for 10 weeks on Billboard’s Adult R&B airplay chart; “Baby” with legendary soul singer Betty Wright, another No. 1 hit; and “Wish I Didn’t Miss You” and “Brotha.” Her 2001 album “Mahogany Soul” reached No. 22 on the Billboard 200, while 2007’s “The Art of Love & War” peaked at No. 11.
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