By Jim Clark

Police responded to a report of a motor vehicle accident in the vicinity of 80 Webster Ave. Sunday evening.

While en route the responding officers were informed that a fight had broken out between the involved parties.

When the officers arrived on at the scene of the incident they were met by the driver and a passenger of one of the cars involved in the incident. The driver reportedly told police that she had been travelling south on Webster Ave. and stopped to allow a snowplow to pass her. Due to the amount of snow that had fallen the street was relatively narrow for vehicular traffic.

The driver also stated that as she waited for the snowplow to pass she felt an impact at the rear of her vehicle. She reportedly exited her vehicle and confronted the driver of the car behind her, later identified as Mario Lopes, of Cambridge.

The driver said that Lopes spoke incoherently and eventually drove away.

It was brought to the responding officers’ attention that Lopes had already been stopped elsewhere, in Cambridge.

A search of Lopes’ vehicle turned up a partially emptied bottle of vodka on the floor of the vehicle’s backseat area.

Police issued citations for the vehicular accident and administered a breathalyzer test to Lopes, which registered a blood alcohol concentration of 0.23%.

Lopes was placed under arrest and charged with open alcohol container, operation of a motor vehicle under the influence of liquor, operation of a motor vehicle with a suspended registration, and leaving the scene of property damage.