A Dunkirk man who killed his brother's close friend in a four-car crash in Waysons Corner in 2000 received a sentence yesterday that combines 18 months of jail time with house arrest, loss of driving privileges, community service and other penalties.

Driving drunk and speeding on a suspended license with his 6-year-old son in the car, Gary Lee Rawlings, 27, initiated a crash that caused the death of Frank A. Vaughn, 51, of Forestville after a Father's Day party both attended.

"This is not a 'there-but-for-the-grace-of-God-go-I' case," said Assistant State's Attorney Shelly A. Stickell, who sought a four-year prison term for Rawlings, who pleaded guilty in March to manslaughter.

At the sentencing, Rawlings told Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge Robert H. Heller Jr. that he struggles emotionally with the crash. "I think about this every day," he said.

His lawyer, Peter S. O'Neill, said that although Rawlings had five speeding tickets, he had no criminal record.

Heller sentenced Rawlings to five years in jail, but suspended 3 1/2 years. Heller said he was ordering Rawlings released during the days to work so he could support his three children.

The judge added five years of supervised probation, the first three under house arrest. Rawlings is to perform 1,200 hours of community service for Mothers Against Drunk Driving or a similar group. Heller also fined him $5,000, but suspended that in lieu of Rawlings paying up to $5,000 toward Vaughn's medical and funeral expenses.

Police said that Rawlings was driving a Ford Thunderbird at 116 mph north on Route 4 near Route 408 when he tried to pass his brother Keith Rawling's Ford Escort, in which Vaughn was a passenger. But he struck the passenger side, sending the car into the southbound lanes. A southbound truck avoided it, but hit the median. A southbound Jeep hit the Escort on the passenger side.

Rawling's brother pleaded guilty to drunken driving in connection with the accident and received a one-year suspended sentence, O'Neill said.