Charges related to a deadly pedestrian crash last summer against country singer Conner Smith have been dropped, the Davidson County District Attorney General’s Office confirmed to WZTV.
In June last year, Smith struck and killed 77-year-old Dorothy “Dot” Dobbins with his pickup truck in Nashville. Metropolitan Nashville Police Department issued Smith a misdemeanor state citation the following month. On Thursday, WZTV reported that the office said Smith’s misdemeanor citation was withdrawn at the request of Dobbins’ family.
The 25-year-old’s attorney, Worrick G Robinson IV, issued a statement to People following the news of the charges being dropped. “This devastating accident was a profound tragedy for the family of Dot Dobbins and the larger Germantown community. Over the past several months, Conner has been grateful for the opportunity to get to know Dot’s family personally and be able to voice his deep and sincere grief,” said Robinson. “While he is grateful that this legal chapter has concluded, he will continue to steadfastly lift her family up in prayer.”
In December, Smith reflected on the grief he felt since he was involved in the fatal auto accident. Smith was driving his Chevrolet Silverado truck when he struck Dobbins at a crosswalk on June 8. Police claimed he failed to yield, and EMTs brought her to Vanderbilt University Medical Center where she later died.
“It was so out of nowhere,” he previously said on The Upload with Brooke Taylor podcast. “Just in a moment, your entire … like a tornado runs through your house, and there’s so much grief and there’s so much trauma from that intense, intense trauma. … “There’s a darkness in that, you just can’t — there’s no words, right? It felt like a tornado just blowing through my house. You don’t have a concept of reality and what is going on, and all you have is the people you love, and the people that are around you.”
