One person was killed Friday when a tour bus belonging to Miley Cyrus overturned, but the 16-year-old Hannah Montana star wasn’t on board, Virginia State Police said. The bus was one of four traveling together after the singer’s two-show stint Wednesday and Thursday at Nassau Coliseum.
Sgt. Thomas Molnar said the bus ran off the left side of Interstate 85, struck an embankment and overturned. The accident occurred around 8:15 a.m. in Dinwiddie County, about 40 miles south of Richmond. Speed and weather weren’t considered factors.
Molnar said the person who died at the scene was male, but didn’t identify him pending notification of family members. One of the other nine people on the bus suffered minor injuries and was taken to a local hospital. Police wouldn’t identify those aboard the bus, which included the tour’s production crew.
Molnar said the passengers exited the bus through the front windshield.
A wrecker arrived late Friday morning to haul away the black and maroon luxury tour bus, which was on its side in a ditch off the highway where it had apparently skidded for several hundred feet.
The bus was hauled by the wrecker up to the next exit off I-85, where two other tour buses and members of the tour were waiting. About two dozen members of the tour, some still wearing pajama bottoms, began transferring backpacks and laptops from the wrecked bus into two other buses parked outside a restaurant. They all declined to speak to reporters.
The group was heading to Greensboro, N.C., where she is scheduled to perform Sunday. Cyrus was not traveling with the group at the time of the crash, authorities said.
