NBC Boston has the pics of the aftermath of a truck driver heading inbound on Storrow Drive having his entire roof peeled back like a long stretch of tin foil as he tried but failed to squeeze under the Fairfield Street footbridge around 5:15 a.m.
Mark Garfinkel captures the scene on Memorial Drive, where a trucker hauling portable toilets this morning slammed into the Mass. Ave. overpass, sending two of the plastic outhouses right onto the asphalt.
Jessi Murder-y spotted this family that storrows together at yesterday's annual canine costume parade in Jamaica Plain.
Last year:
Roslindale's first storrowing.
Take a look at this beauty. It's so rare to see a truck just completely destroyed like that, sending debris everywhere and creating one hell of a massive backup - the driver must have gotten up quite the head of steam. Plus, the driver gets credit for returning to the sport's origins and traditions - plowing a rental truck into the bridge as God intended.
Around 10:30 this morning, roving UHub photographer Phil B. came across an unusual sight as he headed inbound on Storrow Drive just before the Kenmore exit: A truck facing inbound but on the otherwise empty outbound side. Read more.
Can it be? Nobody turned their box truck into a sardine can peeled back by an bridge on Storrow Drive, Mem Drive or Soldiers Field Road this Allston Christmas weekend? Read more.
DCR is out with its annual Allston Christmas warning for kids and their parents about the river roads.
Crew trying to remove the remains of the truck. Photo by DemonHusky.
NBC Boston's Mark Garfinkel got to the Bowker Overpass where the driver of a box truck for a New Bedford produce company found out what happens when you try to drive a truck onto the overpass, shortly after 5:45 this morning. Judges rate this a 10 out of 10: Truck on its side, roof torn off, debris in the road.
MassDOT yesterday sued a Charlestown company whose driver was going down 128 with the back of his "rollback" flatbed in the upright position - at least until he slammed into the bottom of an overpass at Endicott Street in Danvers on Nov. 14, 2020. Read more.
Mark Garfinkel captured the box truck emblazoned with giant lobster claws whose driver ignored onramp warning signs and so slammed into a Storrow Drive bridge today.
Roving UHub photographer Paul K. reports he was inbound on Soldiers Field Road down by Harvard Stadium today when he "hit a wave of traffic and saw a mangled U-Haul backing up."
He adds that if you look up the bridge the driver will probably never hit again on Google Maps, it's actually marked "low clearence" (so, yeah, Google Maps needs some spelling help).
MassDOT today sued a trucking company in Lincoln, AL that had a worker haul a giant tank south on I-93 in Medford, where it collided with the bottom of a bridge over the highway, shutting the road and causing what the state says was $2.65 million in damage in 2021. Read more.
Michael Sokolov captured the aftermath of a classic storrowing this morning: The remains of a freshly storrowed box truck that had been hauled off Soldiers Field Road and dumped on Western Avenue, after its driver fought the bridge and the bridge won. Read more.
Roving UHub photographer Jake Kassen reports that, after years of seeing the aftermath of storrowings, he watched his first roof actually get sheared off, around 9:10 a.m. inbound, by the Silber footbridge. Read more.
Roving Uhub photographer Brian C., who photographed the day's first Storrowing, then missed the second, reports on a what would have been the third, except the driver of the Penske truck had second thoughts about getting up to ramming speed on Storrow outbound sometime before he drove by around 1:20 p.m.: Read more.
Mark Garfinkel reports another Storrowing today: By the driver of a Trillium Brewing truck, inbound next to the Liberty Hotel, which disproves the old adage: Trillium beer is local beer and local beer should know better.
Workers try to figure out how to get trailer out from under overpass. Photo by roving UHub photagrapher Brian C.
The driver of an 18-wheeler tried to get on Storrow Drive outbound from the Bowker Overpass this morning only to learn that like the house in poker, the bridge always wins. Bright-eyed and bushytailed NBC Boston photographer Mark Garfinkel was on the scene shortly before 6:30 a.m. and posted some photos of what it looks like after the overpass is done teaching its latest lesson.
Adam J.B. Lane forwards a photo from the Facebook Arlington List of a box truck about to be towed away from the bridge carrying the Minuteman bike trail over Grove Street in Arlington yesterday:
Grove Street in Arlington may not make the news quite as often as a certain other roadway in Boston, but it's no slouch itself when comes to ventilating unwary box trucks.
Roving UHub photographer Henry Luthin snapped the aftermath of a most impressive storrowing this afternoon, inbound on Soldiers Field Road by the Harvard B-School. Read more.
The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round, until the bus driver gets on Storrow Drive and skee-ronches right into the infamous Bridge of Double Storrows by Mass Eye and Ear. Tom Leonard couldn't help but photograph the scene this morning, given that the stuck bus was backing up traffic like nobody's business. Read more.
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