A high blood-alcohol level was determined to be a factor in a crash last month that resulted in the death of led a Jim Thorpe woman and two others, Upper Saucon Township Police Department said Wednesday.

Police said that at 8:35 p.m. March 6, a Dodge Charger driven by Nicholas White, 23, of Chadds Ford, traveling southbound on Lanark Road at a speed too fast for conditions left the roadway and crashed.

The Upper Saucon Township Police Department, Lehigh County Coroner’s Office and the Lehigh County Crash Team Task Force conducted the investigation, which revealed that the passenger side tires of the vehicle traveled to the right side of the roadway and into the grass along the roadside while negotiating a right curve on the road.

Police said it appears that White overcorrected steering the vehicle to the left, and the vehicle traveled across the south and northbound lanes of travel, striking a large tree at the 1 o’clock position.

The vehicle continued to travel, and then struck a second tree about 10 feet beyond the first tree in the front yard of 4435 Lanark Road.

Police said there were no skid marks on the roadway, and the vehicle finally came to rest and became engulfed in flames.

White, along with front passenger Sean Hanczaryk, 21, of Frenchtown, New Jersey, and the rear driver side passenger, Emily Kattner, 24, of Jim Thorpe, were pronounced deceased at the scene by a member of the Lehigh County Coroner’s Office.

DeSales University said Hanczaryk, was a senior sport and exercise physiology major and a baseball player. White was a 2019 graduate and Kattner was a 2020 graduate.

Before DeSales University, Kattner attended Lehigh Carbon Community College. She was on the dean’s list in both locations. She was an honor roll student at Jim Thorpe High School.

Brandon Dichiacchio, a passenger in the rear passenger side seat, was extricated from the burning vehicle by the Upper Saucon Township Police Department and Upper Saucon Township Ambulance personnel.

Dichiacchio, a senior sport and exercise physiology major and a baseball player, was transported to a hospital in critical condition.

The investigation determined that at the time of death, White’s blood alcohol content was 0.14%.

Upper Saucon township Fire Department, Lower Saucon Township Fire Department and their fire police assisted at the scene.