{"id":58507,"date":"2026-02-20T05:51:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T05:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/charges-dropped-against-conner-smith-after-fatal-car-accident\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T05:51:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T05:51:33","slug":"charges-dropped-against-conner-smith-after-fatal-car-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/charges-dropped-against-conner-smith-after-fatal-car-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Charges Dropped Against Conner Smith After Fatal Car Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The musician\u00a0struck and killed 77-year-old\u00a0Dorothy &#8220;Dot&#8221; Dobbins last summer<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tCharges related to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/conner-smith-fatal-car-accident-statement-1235478858\/\">deadly pedestrian crash<\/a> last summer against country singer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/conner-smith\/\" id=\"auto-tag_conner-smith\" data-tag=\"conner-smith\">Conner Smith<\/a> have been dropped, the Davidson County District Attorney General\u2019s Office <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mynews4.com\/news\/entertainment\/charges-dropped-against-country-music-singer-conner-smith-in-deadly-germantown-nashville-tennessee-crash-citation-withdrawn-3rd-avenue-north-van-buren-street-davidson-county\">confirmed<\/a> to <em>WZTV<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn June last year, Smith struck and killed 77-year-old \u00a0Dorothy \u201cDot\u201d Dobbins\u00a0with his pickup truck in Nashville. Metropolitan Nashville Police Department issued Smith a misdemeanor state citation the following month. On Thursday, <em>WZTV<\/em> reported that the office said Smith\u2019s misdemeanor citation was withdrawn at the request of Dobbins\u2019 family. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe 25-year-old\u2019s attorney, Worrick G Robinson IV, issued a statement to <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/conner-smith-charges-related-to-fatal-car-accident-that-killed-woman-77-dropped-at-request-of-victim-family-11910377\" target=\"_blank\">People<\/a><\/em> following the news of the charges being dropped. \u201cThis 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\u2019s family personally and be able to voice his deep and sincere grief,\u201d said Robinson. \u201cWhile he is grateful that this legal chapter has concluded, he will continue to steadfastly lift her family up in prayer.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn December, Smith reflected on the grief he felt since he was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/conner-smith-breaks-silence-month-after-killing-pedestrian-1235383663\/\">involved in the fatal auto accident<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cIt was so out of nowhere,\u201d he previously said on\u00a0<em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/NGbropxZzW4?si=ZASATuK-5dnoC08J\">The Upload with Brooke Taylor<\/a><\/em>\u00a0podcast. \u201cJust in a moment, your entire \u2026 like a tornado runs through your house, and there\u2019s so much grief and there\u2019s so much trauma from that intense, intense trauma. \u2026 \u201cThere\u2019s a darkness in that, you just can\u2019t \u2014 there\u2019s no words, right? It felt like a tornado just blowing through my house. You don\u2019t 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/conner-smith-fatal-car-accident-charges-dropped-1235519745\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The musician\u00a0struck and killed 77-year-old\u00a0Dorothy &#8220;Dot&#8221; Dobbins last summer Charges related to a deadly pedestrian crash last summer against country singer Conner Smith have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":58508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}