The two children of late singer Angie Stone are suing the driver, trucking company and truck maker involved in the catastrophic Alabama car accident that killed Stone in March.
Stone’s children, Diamond Stone and Michael Dunjero Archer, filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Gwinnett County, Atlanta, on Tuesday, according to documents obtained by WSB-TV.
The lawsuit alleges Angie actually survived her first car accident. The driver of a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van is riding with her aides, claiming that her bandmate lost control of the vehicle and that it turned over.
Passersby helped pull five of the nine passengers out of the van, according to the lawsuit. However, Angie was still about to leave the vehicle while the tractor trailer had the sugar pounded by the van. Angie was kicked out of the van on impact and pinned underneath, where she died, the lawsuit alleges.
The lawsuit also alleges that the tractor trailer driver “didn’t pay proper attention to the road in front of him,” and that the vehicle’s collision mitigation system failed.
Angie went home after a performance in Mobile, Alabama at the time of the crash. The document states that she “consciously suffered” as she eventually died while still locked up under the van.
She was 63 years old.
Trucking Company CSRT and truck maker Daimler Truck North America did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Page 6.
The “Than a Woman” singer shared her daughter Diamond with her ex-husband Rodney Stone. She shared her son Michael with Dangelo.
Diamond confirmed the heartbreaking news of her mother’s death in a Facebook post shortly after the crash.
“My mom is gone,” she wrote along with some crying emojis.
The Grammy-nominated singer rose to fame in 1979 when she joined the entire female trio, Sequence, along with Sheryl Cook and Gwendo Rinch Solm.
She eventually began her own solo career in the 90s, releasing her 1999 album “Black Diamond.”
