By Jim Clark

Somerville Police officers were dispatched to a Springfield St. location last week on reports of a vehicular accident.

Upon arrival, police dispatch informed arriving units that the vehicle in question had struck two parked cars. A traffic unit and EMTs were subsequently called to the scene.

One vehicle, later identified as belonging to Alan Kelly, of Medford, was discovered close to a white SUV, which had sustained no damage. However, two trucks in front of it did.

One had damage on the driver’s side from the front bumper to the rear bumper, and the second also had damage on the driver’s side from the front bumper to the rear bumper.

Officers reportedly noticed that Kelly’s eyes were red and glassy. An odor or alcohol was also reportedly emanating from him, and he was slurring his speech.

Upon questioning Kelly, police were told that he had about two alcoholic beverages while working on Cambridge Street in Cambridge.

Kelly then reportedly said that while driving home to Medford he swerved to miss an oncoming car and crashed into the two vehicles that were parked on the road.

The officers informed Kelly that if he was hurt he should be seen at the hospital, but he reportedly told them that he was not injured.

Knowing that Kelly was not injured and suspected to be under the influence of alcohol, the officers asked him to submit to field sobriety tests at the scene of the crash.

Kelly reportedly refused to take the tests. Once he refused these tests, he was informed that he was under arrest and placed into handcuffs.

He was taken to the police station, where he once again refused to take any sobriety tests, and booked on charges of negligent operation of a motor vehicle and operation of a motor vehicle under the influence of liquor.