Family Reveals Details Behind Tour-Bus Wreck

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The bus was one of four traveling together from Long Island, N.Y., where the 16-year-old singer performed Thursday night. The group was headed for Greensboro, N.C., for another show Sunday.

(AP) DINWIDDIE, Va.- Family members of Miley Cyrus's bus driver are revealing details about what happened leading up to the deadly crash involving Miley Cyrus's tour bus.

The bus driver's family says he suffered a heart attack, and died before the bus crashed Friday on I-85 just south of Richmond, Virginia. Police said 53-year-old William Douglas of Austin, Texas, died at the scene.

Cyrus was not on the bus when it wrecked, but nine members of her production lighting crew were. They were able to escape through the front windshield of the bus.

Marty Zilio of Canada was injured in the crash and treated at a local hospital. He's a member of Cyrus's production crew.

The Cyrus family said on her Web site that they're "deeply saddened by the loss of Bill 'Uncle Bill' Douglas," and that he'll be missed.

The bus was one of four traveling together from Long Island, N.Y., where the 16-year-old singer performed Thursday night. The group was headed for Greensboro, N.C., for another show Sunday.

Miley Cyrus is the daughter of country star Billy Ray Cyrus and appears on the Disney sitcom "Hannah Montana."

(The Associated Press contributed to this article.)