(CBS/ AP) The driver of Miley Cyrus' tour bus was killed Friday when the vehicle overturned on a Virginia highway, reports CBS affiliate WTVR in Richmond.
Virginia State Police confirmed the death, but did not identify the victim. The 16-year-old "Hannah Montana" star was not on board.
Sgt. Thomas Molnar says the bus overturned around 8:15 a.m. Friday on Interstate 85 in Dinwiddie, in central Virginia. It was traveling in the southbound lane when it went off the left side of the road.
One of the other nine passengers had minor injuries. They were members of the singer's production lighting crew and many of them were asleep at the time of the crash. They exited the wreckage through the front windshield.
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Police said the roads were wet with heavy rains Thursday but are not blaming the weather for the accident.
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.
Molnar said the bus was one of four traveling together after the singer's two-show stint Wednesday and Thursday in Long Island, N.Y. The group was heading to Greensboro, N.C., where she is scheduled to perform Sunday.
Miley Cyrus is the daughter of country star Billy Ray Cyrus, who also appears on the family friendly sitcom "Hannah Montana."
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