The Alabama Highway Patrol said the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van that Stone was traveling in overturned on Interstate 65 early Saturday before being hit by a 2021 Freightliner Cascadia truck. Stone was pronounced dead at the scene, the highway patrol said in a statement.

Stone, 63, was riding from Mobile, Ala., to Atlanta in a Sprinter van when it collided with a tractor-trailer on Interstate 65 near Montgomery.