A 26-year-old Nashville man is facing a felony vehicular homicide charge after investigators determined he was traveling up to 107 mph moments before slamming into another car on Old Hickory Boulevard, killing a 42-year-old passenger. Eddie Lee McGee III was booked into Metro jail on August 25 with bond set at $25,000, more than seven months after the January 16 crash that claimed the life of Markeith Miller.
According to WKRN News 2, arrest documents state that McGee smashed into the passenger side of a Mercury Grand Marquis, and the impact caused it to overturn. The station reports that arrest documents concluded the crash would not have occurred had McGee been driving at a lower speed, a finding that transformed the case from a routine failure-to-yield report into a felony charge.
The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department's initial account of the crash, released the day it happened, told a somewhat different story. In that January 16 release, the driver of the Mercury Grand Marquis was attempting to turn left from Zermatt Avenue onto Old Hickory Boulevard when McGee's eastbound 2019 Honda Accord struck her vehicle, according to the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department. Police initially pointed to the turning driver's failure to yield as a preliminary factor, before the speed reconstruction that followed shifted the case toward McGee.
Seatbelts, Injuries and the Path to a Felony Charge
Officials said the occupants inside the Grand Marquis were not wearing seatbelts, while McGee was belted at the time of impact, per the police department's account. The crash injured one passenger and killed Miller, and both surviving drivers were transported to Vanderbilt University Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries, the department noted in its release.
Under Tennessee Code Annotated § 39-13-213, vehicular homicide resulting from reckless conduct that creates a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury is classified as a Class C felony, according to the Oberman & Rice Law Firm. That charge carries a potential sentence of 3 to 15 years in prison and fines up to $10,000, the firm notes in its breakdown of the statute. McGee now faces that exposure over the seven months between the crash and his arrest, during which investigators apparently worked through crash reconstruction before filing the felony count on August 25.
A Corridor With a Troubled Record
Old Hickory Boulevard has seen a string of serious wrecks in the past year and a half. In a mother and son killed near Anthony Street last year after their vehicle struck a utility pole, and a separate March 2025 arrest followed a fatal drag-racing incident on the same corridor. More recently, a woman died in a head-on crash with a semi-truck on Old Hickory in March, and a Murfreesboro motorcyclist was killed on the same road days later.
The corridor's problems reflect a countywide pattern. Davidson County recorded 116 traffic deaths across more than 26,000 total vehicle crashes in 2024, exceeding the 104 homicides recorded in Nashville that same year, according to ThatCarHitMe.com. Statewide, Tennessee traffic fatalities actually dropped 14 percent in 2025 to 1,045 deaths, down from 1,194 the year before, per the Tennessee Highway Safety Office data cited by the same outlet — a decline that has not been mirrored on Nashville's high-speed urban arterials.
Metro crash data covering 2021 through 2026 shows that late-night hours between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. account for 34.2 percent of Davidson County traffic fatalities despite comprising only 12.3 percent of total collisions, according to an analysis cited by DRS Law. In response to recurring crash clusters and street-racing complaints along high-injury corridors, Metro opened a new South Nashville police precinct staffed with 80 officers in October 2025, ThatCarHitMe.com reports, part of a broader municipal push to get a handle on excessive speeding across the county.
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