New Haven driver pleads guilty in fatal 2019 crash Could serve 6-year term if plea agreement accepted Jim Chapman | The Journal Gazette A New Haven man could get six years behind bars after admitting he was drunk when he caused a crash that killed a college student and injured three other people in October 2019. Nicholas Goyal pleaded guilty this week to causing death while operating a vehicle while intoxicated and three counts of criminal recklessness. If Allen Superior Judge Fran Gull accepts a plea agreement between Goyal and prosecutors, Goyal would be sentenced to 10 years, with six years behind bars and four years suspended. Goyal will be sentenced March 26.