The driver who killed well-known cycling safety activist Dave Salovesh was sentenced to 8 1/2 years in prison on Friday, a sentence prosecutors agreed upon as part of a plea deal in the case. He also received five years of supervised release.

Twenty-five-year-old Robert Little pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in Salovesh’s death in July. Had the case gone to trial, Little would have faced up to 30 years in prison.

Little struck and killed Salovesh on April 19 at the intersection of 12th Street and Florida Avenue NE. He was traveling down Florida Avenue in a stolen Dodge Caravan when police tried to pull him over for a traffic stop. Little declined to pull over and began speeding down the road (per court documents, officers did not give chase). When he hit 12th Street NE, Little ran a red light, crashed into a blue Hyundai, and careened to the wrong side of the road, where he struck Salovesh, who was resting on his bike at a red light.

Little kept going after striking Salovesh, eventually hitting a tree. Salovesh ended up pinned between Little’s vehicle and the tree. Per the police affidavit in the case, Salovesh suffered “severe crushing trauma” and died on the scene.

After Salovesh’s death, his community remembered him as a devoted cyclist safety advocate, a father, a husband, and an involved part of his local community. His widow, Jean DeStefano, has taken pains to make sure Salovesh is remembered as more than just a cycling advocate: “His life was rich and complicated. He was a multi-dimensional human being. His story should not be told through the singular lens of bike advocacy,” she said in a statement on Friday.

Salovesh moved to D.C. in 1997 and worked in IT for the last 10 years at the National Law Enforcement Officer Memorial Fund. He lived in Capitol Hill with DeStefano, and their teenage daughter.

Other cycling activists, some of them his friends, have called on the District Department of Transportation to make changes to the area on Florida Avenue where Salovesh was killed, as other pedestrians have also died there in recent years.

After making some changes this year, including striping the bike lane and installing bus stop pads, DDOT will begin construction on long-term changes to the area in 2021, including reducing the number of lanes on the street.

This story has been updated with a statement from Jean DeStefano.