William "Wild Bill" Wiley, homeless veteran killed by BMW

Homeless man ID'd as victim in fatal accident
By Rachel Raskin-Zrihen/Times-Herald staff writer
Posted: 03/31/2009 02:02:43 AM PDT


William "Wild Bill" Wiley, recently featured in the Times-Herald as a spokesman for local homeless people, was identified officially Monday as the pedestrian victim of an early morning Vallejo car crash.

Wiley was struck and killed by a BMW driven by a woman traveling south on Sonoma Boulevard at about 1:15 a.m. March 16, Solano County Deputy Coroner Adrian Garcia said.


"He was walking crossing Sonoma just north of Yolano, walking west, and was struck and killed by a passing motorist," Garcia said. "There was fairly poor lighting there, and the woman stopped after realizing she'd

hit something. It was deemed a freak accident."


Wiley had been featured in two recent newspaper articles about an illegal encampment in the White Slough area -- one on the encampment's environmental impact and one about the Vallejo Police Department's efforts to evict the 50 or so homeless people from the area.
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