Court documents obtained by WSB-TV 2 revealed that Angie Stone’s two children, Diamond Stone and Michael D’Angelo Archer, filed a lawsuit against a trucking company, a truck manufacturer “and others” for damages following the interstate crash in Alabama.
The family says the driver of the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter that Stone was in, lost control and then flipped when he tried to steer back onto the highway. While Good Samaritans were able to rescue five of the nine passengers from the wreckage, Angie was still inside, struggling to free herself.
According to the lawsuit, Stone and the occupants of the van survived the wreck and were attempting to get out when an 18-wheeler tractor-trailer hit them.
Stone, 63, 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 to pay attention to the road and that the vehicle’s collision-avoidance system malfunctioned.
Neither trucking company CSRT of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, or truck manufacturer Daimler Truck North America of Portland, Oregon, immediately responded to emails seeking comment Thursday
Angie Stone
Stone was a singer-songwriter, rapper, actress and record producer. She rose to fame in 1979 as a member of ‘The Sequence’, the first female hip hop group. She then became a member of the R&B group Vertical Hold in the early 1990s. Stone later found success as a soulful R&B singer-songwriter with hits including “No More Rain (In This Cloud),” “Wish I Didn’t Miss You” and “Brotha.
Stone made her film debut in “The Hot Chick” in 2002 and played Big Mama Morton in the Broadway musical “Chicago” in 2003. She went on to appear in multiple TV and film productions. Additionally, she was nominated for multiple awards and won two Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards and was inducted into the Women Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2024.