(AP) — A Kansas man has been given 20 years in a Nebraska prison for vehicular homicide in Lexington.

23-year-old Destry Swartz, of Coats, Kan., was sentenced Friday. He’d pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide while driving drunk and to flight to avoid arrest. Prosecutors dropped three other charges in exchange for Swartz’s pleas.

The Nebraska State Patrol says Swartz violated a Lexington traffic signal and raced south on U.S. Highway 283 to get away from a state trooper on Oct. 8 last year. The patrol says Swartz ran a red light and slammed into a pickup driven by 68-year-old Ruben Maravilla-Cortes, of Lexington. Maravilla-Cortes died at the scene.