It’s been a year since Conner Smith fatally struck a pedestrian in a Nashville crosswalk, and he recently posted a video to reflect on all that’s happened since the tragic day. Smith is most prominently known as an artist who rose in the country music ranks thanks to TikTok. His song “I Hate Alabama” went viral a couple of years ago, and fans might also recognize his hit song “Creek Will Rise,” or his Tennessee anthem “Orange and White.” He also released his debut album Smoky Mountains in January 2024, and has since made plenty of appearances at various country music festivals over the past couple of years. On the last day of CMA Fest in 2025, a day after he played at the event’s Riverfront Stage, Conner Smith was involved in a tragic accident that took the life of Dorothy “Dot” Dobbins. Initial reports from TMZ suggested that country music singer Conner Smith was behind the wheel of a truck that struck and killed an elderly woman in Nashville. According to law enforcement, Smith was heading north on 3rd Avenue in his Chevy Silverado as 77-year-old Dobbins was attempting to cross the street in the marked crosswalk. The 77-year-old Nashvillian was transported to the nearby Vanderbilt Medical Center following the accident, but unfortunately succumbed to her injuries and was officially pronounced dead at the hospital. Smith was initially charged with a misdemeanor citation for failure to yield the right of way resulting in death, but those charges were later dropped. The country music singer took some time out of the spotlight after the accident, and then eventually returned and has since been very open about the incident. He’s profusely apologized, and has also shared that his faith and relationship with God has strengthened throughout the past year. In his most recent video, Smith shared that it had been a year since the darkest day of his life: “A year ago today was the hardest day of my life. I was driving home from The Listening Room Cafe on Sunday evening after CMA Fest. My buddy had asked me to hop up with him at The Listening Room, and I was driving home that night when tragedy came. I’ve talked about it over the last year enough and there’s not much more to add, other than God is so much better that I could have ever imagined. He is sovereign and real and true and an incredible healer.” Conner Smith has previously stated that the only real peace he’s experienced after the tragedy is in his walk of healing with the Lord. The country singer says that he’s experienced the presence of Jesus and God in “unfathomable ways,” and feels as though he’s been shown kindness and forgiveness from those on Earth and from the Lord above. In the eyes of Smith, yet another example of that forgiveness came on the exact one year anniversary of the accident that forever changed his life: “About six weeks ago, my buddy texted me and asked if I would hop up for his song at The Listening Room. I haven’t been back since that night in June. I told him, ‘Yeah, of course.’ I didn’t really think about it much, to be honest… so one year later to the day was the date that he asked me to hop up in The Listening Room. I was sitting with Jesus this morning and thinking about the last year and everything we’ve walked through and everything we’ve experienced. The radical change in my life from walking through a suffering like that. But I was also kind of asking him, ‘Why is it in your intentionality that you’d have me back there (on June 8)?’ As I was talking to a friend, he brought up the point that he felt like God was marking time.” Conner Smith did end up going to The Listening Room on the one-year-anniversary of the tragedy, and he said later on in the video that he felt comfortable doing so because everything he does from here on in his career is for God’s glory. The country singer invited others to explore a relationship with God, and told his followers that he’s handing over his life and career as a musician to the Lord: “Anything that my life ever becomes after this year, do know that it will be for His glory and by His will.” View this post on Instagram The post “God Is Marking Time”: Conner Smith Returned To Nashville Venue He Played Shortly Before Fatal Car Accident Exactly One Year Later first appeared on Whiskey Riff.