Conner Smith’s fatal car accident charges dropped at request of victim’s family

Country singer Conner Smith will not face charges related to a fatal June 2025 car accident that claimed the life of 77-year-old Dorothy Dot Dobbins, the Davidson County District Attorney’s Office confirmed Thursday, Feb. 19.

Smith, 25, had been cited for a misdemeanor traffic offense, failure to yield resulting in a fatality, after Dobbins was struck by his Chevrolet Silverado while walking across a crosswalk in Nashville on June 8, 2025. 

She later died at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Authorities noted Smith showed no signs of impairment.

The citation was withdrawn at the request of Dobbins’ family, according to the DA’s office.

“This devastating accident was a profound tragedy for the family of Dot Dobbins and the larger Germantown community,” Smith’s attorney, Worrick G. Robinson IV, said in a statement to People. 

“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. 

While he is grateful that this legal chapter has concluded, he will continue to steadfastly lift her family up in prayer.”

Smith had previously expressed his heartbreak over the incident on social media. In a July 2025 Instagram post since deleted, he wrote, “My heart [was] broken in a way I've never experienced, and I still struggle to fully process the weight of it all. Not a day has gone by that I haven’t grieved, prayed, and mourned for Ms. Dobbins and her family.”

He added: “I ask that you continue to lift the Dobbins family up in prayer by name, asking for God's peace to surround them each day.”

Reflecting on the personal toll of the accident, Smith told Brooke Taylor on The Upload podcast in December 2025.

“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 are no words. 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.”