State police arrested the suspect at Magnolia and Greenleaf streets in Chicopee.
SPRINGFIELD – An alleged hit-and-run accident involving two vehicles on Interstate 91 Sunday night led to the arrest of a 23-year-old Easthampton man on a drunken driving charge for the second time, state police said.
Trooper Gary Woods said victim reported the crash shortly before 11 p.m. and followed the suspect’s vehicle, a green Saturn sedan, for a time.
The Saturn pulled onto Interstate 391 and then onto the surface roads of Chicopee where Trooper Evan Breeding saw it heading north on Magnolia Street and pulled it over near Greenleaf Street, Woods said.
The driver, John Vanvalkenbu, of 13 Maple St., Easthampton, was charged with drunken driving (second offense), leaving the scene of a property damage accident, negligent operation of a motor vehicle and open container.