Showing posts with label William "Wild Bill" Wiley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label William "Wild Bill" Wiley. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

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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