I went out that way for a reported pedestrian accident at Middlesex and Baldwin about 6:30 p.m.
The pedestrian was fine, actually smiling at the scene, but at the same time there was a minor crash right on the Rourke Bridge, and by the time I was leaving traffic was backed up past the intersection with Pawtucket Street.
Quite a mess out there, and a few cruisers on the way to help direct all the traffic.
There is also a gas leak in a fairly remote area back off Perry Street, between Bradford Industries and the Concord River.
I went out to check it out, but it wasn't really accessible, and there appeared to be no homes in the area, so no evacuations or anything. National Grid was on the way to fix it up.
Oh there are homes back here! We didn't get evacuated but would have preferred some better communication rather than breathing the gas in for hours before it was shut off.
Rob, you're to be forgiven, because you're not a native Lowellian, but it's Rourke Bridge, named after Timothy Rourke, a state representative killed in a car accident in the early 1980s. Had this gone into print, no doubt a sharp-eyed copy editor would have caught this, right?
haha, actually Dan Phelps is pretty good at catching all that stuff. He's my walking, talking dictionary of Lowell-area names and places.
As for this particular incident here, though. I have no idea what you're talking about.
It's pretty nice to be able to go back and edit something as soon as I realize my mistake, instead of having 45,000 copies of the evidence that I can't spell.