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By Times staff writer
© St. Petersburg Times, published March 21, 2001
DUNEDIN -- An early morning car crash Tuesday that left a Pennsylvania woman dead and her passenger injured may have been caused by alcohol, a spokesman from the Sheriff's Office said. Christina M. Dermont, 23, of 335 First St. in Donora, Pa., was killed about 12:35 a.m. when her 1999 Buick struck a telephone pole and flipped over, said sheriff's spokesman Deputy Cal Dennie. "Dermont was eastbound on SR 586 and had drifted off the road," Dennie said. "As she tried to correct the action she overcorrected and lost control, rotating sideways, hitting a telephone pole on the driver's side of the vehicle." Dennie said the impact caused the car to fly through the air and land upside down. Dermont was pronounced dead at the scene. Her passenger, Christopher Henry, 27, who gave an address in Elco, Pa., was taken by helicopter to Bayfront Medical Center and was released later that afternoon. Dennie said both had been drinking Monday evening.