Metacom Avenue produces the wrecks. Drivers take the Route 136 straightaways like it's a highway, and the side-street intersections don't forgive that, so a lot of our accident work here starts on 136. The village is the opposite problem. Main Street and the lanes off it are narrow, the houses are old and mostly have no driveway, and one dead car at the curb blocks half a street. Tight hookups, sometimes a dolly.
Water Street is its own category. Boatyards and marinas mean trailer moves, launch-ramp pulls, and the occasional vehicle that got too friendly with the ramp. When a storm tide backs up the Kickemuit, the low end floods and the drowned-engine calls follow. On summer weekends, 114 through toward Bristol crawls, so tell us which side of the backup you're on.
Working the narrow streets off Main
Can you pull a truck and trailer off a Water Street ramp?
Yes. Ramp recoveries and trailer moves around the waterfront are routine for us — we bring winch gear and use the flatbed where the surface allows it.
There's nowhere to put a tow truck on my street. Is that a problem?
No. We deal with the village layout constantly. Tell dispatch the cross street and how tight the block is, and we'll send the truck that fits.