SCITUATE — Two drivers with lengthy criminal records pleaded no contest to drunken-driving and other offenses yesterday in separate cases in Kent County District Court.

According to Capt. Stephen B. Lang of the Scituate police, Peter G. Reid, 46, of Dayville, Conn., crashed his pickup truck against a guardrail while traveling west on the Route 6 bypass at 7 a.m. on July 5, bounced into the opposite lane and struck a car head-on that was traveling in the opposite direction.

Reid, who has been arrested 10 times in Rhode Island since the 1980s, and the other driver refused treatment for minor injuries, Lang said.

He said that when Patrolman Mathew King arrived at the accident scene, Reid was talking on a cell phone and paid no attention to the officer.

“Reid was standing next to his pickup truck, ignoring him like Matt’s not even standing there,” Lang recounted. “After Matt asks several times, he finally hangs up.”

Lang said that Reid, who refused to take a chemical breath test for alcohol, had “bloodshot, watery eyes and had a strong odor of alcoholic beverage.” He said Reid also “stumbled around.”

A check of the pickup truck disclosed two sealed containers of beer and one can that was half full. Lang said all three were chilled.

Reid failed a field sobriety test, and was charged with test refusal. He also was charged with failure to carry his driver’s license, operating without evidence of insurance, crossing the double yellow lines, and possession of an open container of alcohol in a motor vehicle.

Judge Robert J. Rahill, treating Reid as a first offender on the drunken-driving charge because Reid had not been charged with that offense in the past five years, issued the minimum sanctions — six months’ probation, and a license suspension to last three months.

Lang said that Reid’s criminal history in Rhode Island goes back to 1984, when he was charged by Warwick police with possession of marijuana. Several other charges through this year by the Warwick police included possession of cocaine, domestic disorderly conduct, malicious damage to property, driving a car without the consent of the owner, and failing to stop at the scene of an accident involving injury.

Reid pleaded no contest to the latter two charges, brought in 2001, and was sentenced to five years in prison, all but three months suspended.

In 1995, state police charged him with escape from home confinement. He was given a seven-year suspended sentence.

Additionally, Lang said, Reid in the 1990s was charged with drunken-driving in Florida.

In the other case, Heather F. Cournoyer, 28, of 37 Foster St., Harrisville, was ordered by Judge Jeanne LaFazia to be held at the Adult Correctional Institutions as a probation violator.

Lang said that police headquarters received calls from motorists at about 5 p.m. Tuesday reporting a vehicle weaving erratically on Route 116 — “essentially, all over the road.”

Patrolwoman Francisca Cochran searched for the vehicle, and after another call, around 6:20 p.m., reporting that the vehicle had nearly hit a pedestrian and two people on bicycles, found Cournoyer’s car traveling north on Route 116.

Cochran halted the car at Danielson Pike, and with Patrolman Craig Hawkins gave Cournoyer a field sobriety test, which she failed.

Lang said that a chemical breath test for alcohol at headquarters indicated that her blood-alcohol level was 0.15, nearly twice the legal limit for driving.

He said that Smithfield police in February charged her with possession of marijuana, and because she had been convicted of the offense in the past, it was upgraded to a felony. On May 12 she pleaded no contest to the charge, and received a one-year suspended sentence, and a year of probation.

That made her a probation violator because of the Scituate case, Lang said.

He said Cournoyer was held overnight, then was brought before Judge Jeanne LaFazia in Kent County District Court.

In addition to ordering Cournoyer to be locked up at the ACI, LaFazia fined her $500, suspended her license for five months, ordered her to undergo 20 hours of community service, and directed her to attend drunken-driving school.

Lang said that Cournoyer has a record of malicious damage to property and of possessing illegal drugs. He said that since 2000 she has been arrested in North Smithfield, Smithfield and Woonsocket.

tmorgan@projo.com