Driver killed when Miley Cyrus tour bus overturns on I-85

The tour bus that overturned was one of four headed to the next Miley Cyrus concert in Greensboro, N.C., officials said.

By: | Inside NoVA
Published: November 20, 2009

RICHMOND, Va. — A Miley Cyrus tour bus overturned on southbound Interstate 85 in Dinwiddie County today, killing the driver, Virginia State Police said. Cyrus was not aboard the bus, which was one of four traveling in a caravan to the pop star’s next concert in Greensboro, N.C.

The bus was carrying nine members of the tour’s lighting crew when it wrecked about 8:15 a.m. One person suffered a broken nose and was taken to Southside Regional Medical Center in Petersburg.

The bus had left early today from Nassau, N.Y., where Cyrus performed the last two nights.

Police could not immediately explain why the bus wrecked near mile marker 55. The driver ran off the side of the road, and when the bus entered an inclined ravine it turned on its right side. Officials do not believe that speed or road conditions were a factor in the wreck.

Officials said most of the passengers were asleep at the time of the crash. They were able to escape from the overturned bus by crawling through the front windshield.

The bus was hauled up by a wrecker shortly before noon. Tour members were to rejoin the caravan at the next exit and continue to North Carolina.

Cyrus was traveling separately from the caravan, police added.