The family of a man killed in Alberta two years ago is angry about the sentence handed to the person responsible.

Anthony Barrett, 28, of Lethbridge, was sentenced to 18 months in jail after pleading guilty to impaired driving causing death.

He was driving south on Highway 2 near Nanton in July 2010, when he ran into the back of a motorbike.

The motorcyclist, 51-year-old Wilf Struck of Montana, was thrown from his bike and struck another vehicle.

He died at the scene.

Struck's wife Cathy, says Barrett could have received up to 30 years for the same offence in the U.S.

“Yeah, there's a lot of anger but I don't want my children…I don't want me to dwell in anger,” Cathy Struck said. “That wouldn't do nothing but make us sick. So we kind of left it up to the court and whatever happens to him from now on happens.”

She also says her teenage kids are trying to move on.

“We're doing better. The girls, they both made the honour roll,” Struck said. “They have not suffered in their studies. Their dad was a very happy person and they know that he wouldn't want them to stop doing things and not live their lives.”

Court heard Barrett was doing nearly 170 km/h at the time — and had a blood-alcohol level of between .136 and .171.

Barrett was also given 18-months of probation and is prohibited from driving for four years.