Maddox Hall pleaded guilty Friday morning in Daviess Circuit Court to vehicular homicide and multiple additional charges stemming from a May 2024 crash that killed one person and seriously injured others.
Records show the head-on collision occurred at approximately 9:09 p.m. on May 10, 2024, in the 3400 block of New Hartford Road, just north of the bypass. Owensboro police said at the time that Hall was driving southbound in the northbound lanes when he sideswiped one vehicle and then struck another, resulting in the death of 25-year-old Morgan Culyer-Foster of Owensboro and serious injuries to multiple others.
Hall, now 22, entered his guilty plea before Daviess Circuit Judge David Payne. Commonwealth’s Attorney Mike Van Meter said Hall pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide, amended down from murder, and received a 15-year sentence.
Van Meter said Hall also pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree assault, with sentences of 10 years each; one count of first-degree wanton endangerment, with a sentence of 5 years; two counts of second-degree wanton endangerment, amended down from first-degree, with sentences of 12 months each; and DUI, second offense, with a sentence of 180 days. A charge of leaving the scene of an accident was dismissed.
Under the plea agreement, the two 10-year assault sentences will run concurrently with each other but consecutively with the 15-year vehicular homicide sentence, for a total sentence of 25 years. Van Meter said the vehicular homicide and assault convictions are classified as violent offenses, requiring Hall to serve 20 years before becoming eligible for parole. All remaining sentences will run concurrently with the 25-year sentence.
Hall had been scheduled to go to trial on Jan. 26, but the trial has now been canceled. Final sentencing is scheduled for April 10 and will include victim impact testimony.
“The family of Morgan and all victims were consulted and in agreement with the resolution,” Van Meter said. “Thanks to the OPD Accident Reconstruction Unit for excellent and professional investigation.”
