A Cyclist Died Here: Harding Place
>A few days later, across town, another homeless man died to traffic violence in Nashville. Billy Ray Swaner was 58 when he was struck by a semi-truck turning right. He appears to have been in the crosswalk at the time that the semi hit him. He died very publicly at a busy intersection in the middle of the day. Police claimed his death happened because he fell down, preemptively absolving the driver...
>Billy Ray and Hershel aren’t even the only homeless people who have died in Nashville while biking or walking in recent weeks. Another man, Larry Wallace “Pops” Smith was killed by the driver of a pickup truck on Second Avenue while riding a bike. Smith was housed at the time of his death but had a history of homelessness. He formerly lived in Nashville’s Old Tent City. In March, another homeless man named Clifford Coleman was killed while walking on Ewing Drive.
On homelessness & traffic deaths in Nashville