diff --git a/taosWS/connection.go b/taosWS/connection.go
index 8228661..5038ea4 100644
--- a/taosWS/connection.go
+++ b/taosWS/connection.go
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ type taosConn struct {
 	writeTimeout time.Duration
 	cfg          *config
 	endpoint     string
+	closed       atomic.Bool // set when conn is closed,
 }
 
 func (tc *taosConn) generateReqID() uint64 {
@@ -100,6 +101,10 @@ func (tc *taosConn) Begin() (driver.Tx, error) {
 }
 
 func (tc *taosConn) Close() (err error) {
+	if tc.closed.Swap(true) {
+		return nil
+	}
+
 	if tc.client != nil {
 		err = tc.client.Close()
 	}
@@ -110,6 +115,9 @@ func (tc *taosConn) Close() (err error) {
 }
 
 func (tc *taosConn) Prepare(query string) (driver.Stmt, error) {
+	if tc.closed.Load() {
+		return nil, driver.ErrBadConn
+	}
 	stmtID, err := tc.stmtInit()
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
@@ -410,6 +418,9 @@ func (tc *taosConn) ExecContext(ctx context.Context, query string, args []driver
 }
 
 func (tc *taosConn) execCtx(_ context.Context, query string, args []driver.NamedValue) (driver.Result, error) {
+	if tc.closed.Load() {
+		return nil, driver.ErrBadConn
+	}
 	if len(args) != 0 {
 		if !tc.cfg.interpolateParams {
 			return nil, driver.ErrSkip
@@ -463,6 +474,9 @@ func (tc *taosConn) QueryContext(ctx context.Context, query string, args []drive
 }
 
 func (tc *taosConn) queryCtx(_ context.Context, query string, args []driver.NamedValue) (driver.Rows, error) {
+	if tc.closed.Load() {
+		return nil, driver.ErrBadConn
+	}
 	if len(args) != 0 {
 		if !tc.cfg.interpolateParams {
 			return nil, driver.ErrSkip
@@ -521,6 +535,9 @@ func (tc *taosConn) queryCtx(_ context.Context, query string, args []driver.Name
 }
 
 func (tc *taosConn) Ping(ctx context.Context) (err error) {
+	if tc.closed.Load() {
+		return driver.ErrBadConn
+	}
 	return nil
 }
 
diff --git a/taosWS/connection_test.go b/taosWS/connection_test.go
index 6aee030..e93d710 100644
--- a/taosWS/connection_test.go
+++ b/taosWS/connection_test.go
@@ -46,3 +46,29 @@ func Test_formatBytes(t *testing.T) {
 		})
 	}
 }
+
+func TestBadConnection(t *testing.T) {
+	defer func() {
+		if r := recover(); r != nil {
+			// bad connection should not panic
+			t.Fatalf("panic: %v", r)
+		}
+	}()
+
+	cfg, err := parseDSN(dataSourceName)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("parseDSN error: %v", err)
+	}
+	conn, err := newTaosConn(cfg)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("newTaosConn error: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	// to test bad connection, we manually close the connection
+	conn.Close()
+
+	_, err = conn.Query("select 1", nil)
+	if err == nil {
+		t.Fatalf("query should fail")
+	}
+}
diff --git a/taosWS/statement.go b/taosWS/statement.go
index d313820..cd1e910 100644
--- a/taosWS/statement.go
+++ b/taosWS/statement.go
@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ type Stmt struct {
 }
 
 func (stmt *Stmt) Close() error {
+	if stmt.conn == nil || stmt.conn.closed.Load() {
+		return driver.ErrBadConn
+	}
 	err := stmt.conn.stmtClose(stmt.stmtID)
 	stmt.buffer.Reset()
 	stmt.conn = nil
@@ -42,6 +45,9 @@ func (stmt *Stmt) NumInput() int {
 }
 
 func (stmt *Stmt) Exec(args []driver.Value) (driver.Result, error) {
+	if stmt.conn.closed.Load() {
+		return nil, driver.ErrBadConn
+	}
 	if stmt.conn == nil {
 		return nil, driver.ErrBadConn
 	}
@@ -68,6 +74,9 @@ func (stmt *Stmt) Exec(args []driver.Value) (driver.Result, error) {
 }
 
 func (stmt *Stmt) Query(args []driver.Value) (driver.Rows, error) {
+	if stmt.conn.closed.Load() {
+		return nil, driver.ErrBadConn
+	}
 	if stmt.conn == nil {
 		return nil, driver.ErrBadConn
 	}