Atlanta-based singer Angie Stone was trying to get out of a van that had crashed on an Alabama highway when she was killed by a tractor-trailer that slammed into it, her children say in a new lawsuit.

Stone, 63, was a passenger in the van when she died March 1 while returning to Atlanta with family members and bandmates after a performance in Mobile, Alabama. She was the only person killed in the predawn crash.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Gwinnett County State Court, blames the drivers and owners of both vehicles as well as the makers of a collision mitigation system in the truck.

Stone’s adult children, Michael Archer II and Diamond Stone, allege the drivers of the vehicles were negligent, the truck’s collision mitigation system was faulty and the makers of the system failed to w

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