Cyclist death - 13 years for drunk/drugged driver - Melbourne

http://www.theage.com.au/national/cyclists-death-13-years-jail-for-drunken-driver-20091214-ksai.html

SEAN Brindle was 35, a student who excelled at university and was about to become a father. Luke Adam Shields, 32, rebelled at school, then abused multiple drugs and repeatedly broke major road rules.

Even had Brindle been like Shields, his death would still have been a tragic waste.

I imagine that such sentences are rarely passed in Australia, too?