Conner Smith will no longer face charges related to a fatal car crash that happened last year.
The country singer, best known for his song “Creek Will Rise,” won’t be charged in the fatal accident from June 2025 in which 77-year-old Dorothy Dobbins was killed.
“This devastating accident was a profound tragedy for the family of Dot Dobbins and the larger Germantown community,” Worrick G Robinson IV, the attorney representing the 25-year-old singer, told PEOPLE in a statement Thursday.
“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,” Robinson said. “While he is grateful that this legal chapter has concluded, he will continue to steadfastly lift her family up in prayer.”
The Davidson County District Attorney’s Office told TMZ and WZTV that Smith’s misdemeanor citation was withdrawn per request of Dobbins’ family.
Dobbins was killed in the crash that occurred on 3rd Avenue North near Van Buren Street in Nashville at around 7:30 p.m. on June 8, 2025, police said in a press release. Investigators believe a Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck, driven by Smith, was going north on 3rd Avenue North when it struck Dobbins as she was crossing the street. Dobbins was brought to Vanderbilt University Medical Center where she died.
Smith was charged with failure to yield resulting in a fatality. Authorities added that the singer showed no signs of impairment. Smith later shared that he “stayed isolated from the world” in the days following the crash.
“The moment tragedy came, I knew that my heart had no way to process it,” Smith wrote in a blog post on July 30, 2025. “Surrounded by an incredible community, my wife, family, friends, pastors, for the first 30 days, I stayed isolated from the world. I spent most of my time with friends who had stopped by the house, or just me and Jesus. I turned off my phone, and the world, and simply guarded my mind, processing the pain with the people around me.”
He continued, “It’s hard to explain the things I’ve learned through this journey: the intimacy with Jesus I felt, the kindness of community I experienced, the love I’ve been surrounded by, the way I’ve felt God protect me in every single way. There’s so much to this story that I pray, in time, I will be able to share, but for now, my heart just wants to say thank you.”
Smith went on to say that he hoped the situation would make way for “a new beginning on the other side of tragedy.”
