Grammy-nominated R&B singer Angie Stone dies in car crash

Angie Stone poses as she walks down the red carpet during the 2009 Soul Train Awards taping at the Georgia World Congress Centre on November 3 2009 in Atlanta (Gregory Smith/AP)

Grammy-nominated R&B singer Angie Stone, a member of the all-female hip-hop trio The Sequence and known for the hit song Wish I Didn’t Miss You, has died in a car crash.

At about 4am local time, the vehicle she was travelling in back to Atlanta from Alabama “flipped over and was subsequently hit by a big rig”, music producer Walter Millsap III told The Associated Press.