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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.
But the airbag told the story.
RCMP accident reconstructionist Sgt. Barry Noonan testified Wednesday in the trial of Kowal, who is charged with impaired driving causing death, dangerous driving causing death and causing an accident resulting in death.
Salmon Arm teen Donovan Pippus was killed when his small Pontiac traveling the other way was hit by Kowal s 4x4 Dodge pickup before midnight on Sept. 1, 2010.
Noonan examined tire marks on the highway that showed Kowal s truck started to drift into the other lane on a slight bend on the highway, the beginning of a fishtail. A witness Tuesday said the truck was traveling in the other lane when it hit Pippus s small car head on.