Donovan Pippus had plans to settle down with his girlfriend Christine.
A 42-year-old Kelowna man who crossed into the wrong lane on Highway 97A, killing a teenage driver who was coming the other way, was handed three years jail Thursday.
Jean-Paul Kowal was found guilty in March of dangerous driving causing death, but acquitted of impaired driving causing death. He will also serve a four-year driving ban.
After he was led away into custody, Diane Pippus, mother of Salmon Arm teen Donovan Pippus, killed on Sept. 1, 2010, piped up rot in jail, to the driver who racked up a string of road offences in the past 15 years.