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By Times staff writer
© St. Petersburg Times, published May 19, 2001
PALM HARBOR -- A Palm Harbor woman was charged with child neglect and DUI after a crash Thursday night in which she rear-ended another car while driving with her three children, according to Pinellas County Sheriff's Office reports. Kathryn Monique Smith, 37, of 262 Platon Ave., was driving a 1992 Oldsmobile sedan south on Alt. U.S. 19 about 10:50 p.m. when she skidded into a car stopped for a red light at Curlew Road, sheriff's spokesman Cal Dennie said. No one was injured, but deputies said Smith had her 10-year-old daughter, a 7-year-old son and a 5-year-old son in the car with her. She told deputies she had been out to dinner and had had two beers and two margaritas, then said a friend had the beers. Her blood alcohol level measured 0.16 and 0.17 percent. Florida law presumes a driver with a level of 0.08 percent to be impaired. Smith was charged with three counts of child neglect, a felony, and DUI. She was being held Friday at the Pinellas County Jail in lieu of $16,500 bail. The children were turned over to their father.