ATLANTA - The family of singer Angie Stone has filed a wrongful death lawsuit after she died in a Sprinter van crash earlier this year while returning to Atlanta from a show in Alabama.

The lawsuit names the van driver, the transportation company, and the trucking firm involved, alleging the truck’s collision avoidance system failed and that the driver was distracted by headphones.

The lawsuit was filed by Stone's children – Diamond Stone and Michael D'Angelo Archer.

According to the lawsuit, bystanders managed to rescue five of the nine people riding in the van before it was struck by a tractor-trailer hauling sugar.

Stone was still trying to escape when the truck hit, ejecting her from the vehicle and pinning her underneath, where she died. The suit alleges the truck driver failed

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