Because the weeks flip to months because the tragic and surprising loss of life of R&B singer Angie Stone earlier this 12 months on March 1, many are nonetheless discovering it arduous to simply accept the deadly automotive crash that took the lifetime of a soul icon.
Sadly, a brand new replace could very effectively make that course of even more durable to bear following a lawsuit filed by her household which particulars the heartbreaking final moments of her life resulting from a crash that we’ve now come to know she initially survived.
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The lawsuit (seen above) particulars how Stone and her associates misplaced management of a 2021 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van whereas touring by means of Montgomery County en path to Atlanta after leaving a efficiency in Cell, Alabama. Right here’s the place issues went left: everybody survived the preliminary crash, however as they labored to get out the remaining of these left within the van, together with Stone, a 2021 Freightliner tractor-trailer carrying sugar to Forest Park crashed into them with out ever making use of the breaks. Learn the tragic particulars of what occurred subsequent under, by way of courtroom paperwork:
“At round 4:25 AM, a giant CRST tractor-trailer pushed by Defendant Jared Wilkinson was continuing within the left, quick lane of journey on I-65 North. Defendant Wilkinson was on his approach to ship a load of sugar to Forest Park, Georgia. The CRST tractor Wilkinson was driving was a 2021 Freightliner outfitted with Detroit Assurance 5.0, a collision mitigation system designed, manufactured, marketed, and offered by Defendants Daimler Truck North America LLC and Detroit Diesel Company. The Detroit Assurance 5.0 collision mitigation system is marketed and marketed as a system that may warn tractor-trailer drivers of shifting and stationary objects within the roadway, partially brake the tractor-trailer, and then totally brake the tractor-trailer if the driving force doesn’t reply.
As a result of Defendant Wilkinson was not paying correct consideration to the roadway forward of him and since the Detroit Assurance 5.0 collision mitigation system didn’t warn Wilkinson of the disabled Sprinter van or routinely brake the CRST tractor-trailer, Wilkinson slammed the entrance of the CRST tractor-trailer into the disabled Sprinter van at freeway speeds, with out ever making use of the brakes
On the time the CRST tractor-trailer slammed into the overturned Sprinter van, each Angie Stone and Sheila Hopkins had been nonetheless inside and attempting to get out of the van. The drive of the affect was extraordinarily extreme. On account of the collision, Angie Stone was ejected from and pinned beneath the Sprinter van. Angie Stone remained trapped beneath the van, the place she consciously suffered till she in the end succumbed to the deadly accidents she sustained within the collision and died.”
A defective mitigation system, distracted driver and early morning circumstances on the already accident-prone I-65 led to an ideal storm which claimed the lifetime of an artist who we as soon as lovingly known as “Extra Than A Lady.” We pray the negligence specified by this case will not be solely acknowledged in courtroom however offers justice to the households of these misplaced.
Lady, you have to’ve misplaced your method from heaven…shining like a diamond out in area. We’ll miss you, Angie.
