The driver of a Miley Cyrus tour bus was killed on Friday in the US when the bus overturned, but the 16-year-old Hannah Montana star wasn't on-board, Virginia State Police said.
Police say the bus ran off the left side of Interstate 85, struck an embankment and overturned. Speed and weather weren't considered factors.
The driver, William G. Douglas, 53, of Austin, Texas, died at the scene, police said.
Marty Zilio, 48, of Canada, was injured in the crash and treated at a local hospital. He was one of nine members of Cyrus' production crew who were riding in the bus. They escaped the crashed bus through the front windshield.
The Cyrus family said on her website that they were "deeply saddened by the loss of Bill 'Uncle Bill' Douglas" and that he would be missed.
"Members of our tour are like members of our family," the statement said.
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 Interstate 85, where two other tour buses and members of the tour were waiting. About two dozen members of the tour, some still wearing pyjama bottoms, began transferring backpacks and laptops from the wrecked bus into two other buses parked outside a restaurant. They declined to speak to reporters.
Molnar said the bus was one of four travelling together after the singer's two-show stint Wednesday and Thursday in Long Island, New York. The group was heading to Greensboro, North Carolina, where she is scheduled to perform Sunday. Cyrus was not travelling with the group at the time of the crash, authorities said.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
AP