Teen Singer Miley Cyrus’ Bus Over Turns Killing One

November 20, 2009 (by Horatio Algren) According to reports a tour bus belonging to Miley Cyrus overturned in Virginia.

According to the Virginia State Police the rollover tour bus accident occurred at approximately 8:15 a.m. approximately 40 miles south of Richmond on Interstate 85, killing one person and injuring nine others aboard the tour bus.

According to reports Miley Cyrus was not traveling on the bus at the time of the accident and the tour bus is one of four buses that were traveling to Greenboro North Carolina where the teen singer is scheduled to appear on Sunday.

The Cyrus family has released their support and prayers for the man killed in the accident identifying him as the driver of the bus, an Austin Texas native Bill “Uncle Bill” Douglas age 53. Douglas died at the scene of the rollover.

The nine other passengers sustained minor injuries and were able to escape the over turned tour bus through the front windshield according to reports. Their identities have not been released.

Cyrus, was not on the bus and had taken a plane home to Nashville to relax prior to Sunday’s scheduled appearance. The cause of the crash is still under investigation according to authorities.

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Tour Bus Crash Kills 2—Injures Dozens

November 18, 2009 (by Horatio Algren) According to reports a tour bus crash in Minnesota took the lives of two people and injured many of the passengers on the bus.

According to a spokesperson Andy Skoogman of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety stated there were fatalities in the tour bus crash that occurred about two miles west of Austin. The accident occurred at approximately 3:20 p.m. and was a Strain’s Motorcoach bus.

According to Chief Deputy Gene Arnold of Freeborn County stated that six helicopters were sent to the scene of the rolled over bus. Arnold also stated that as many as 22 people were injured in the crash, though their conditions were not known.

A spokesman for Strain’s Motorcoach tour bus lines state that there were 23 on the bus including the driver that is a resident of Rochester Minnesota. The spokesperson stated the tour bus was on a return trip from the Diamond Jo Casino in Northwood Iowa, a weekly Wednesday tour, when it crashed and rolled over.

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