Storrowings are eternal
By adamg on Mon, 05/10/2021 - 1:07pm
WGBH posted a news clip from 1985, when the driver of an out-of-state moving van executed a perfect storrowing: Jammed his truck under a bridge, which peeled the roof off his truck and left stuff scattered all over the road:
A @GBHArchives stroll down memory lane to kick off the workweek... an out-of-state truck falls victim to Storrow Drive in April of 1985.
Police chief to reporter: "They just don't pay attention to the signs. There's plenty of signage there." pic.twitter.com/A4BpsfTXyb— GBH (@GBH) May 10, 2021
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"Storrowing" is hardly new
The difference between the 1980s and now is that everyone has a camera in their pocket to document them.
Going to have to dig out the old photos
I took pictures of this - the question is whether I still have them. I lived half a block from here in April 1985 and I took pictures of these things for my dad to throw into his highway engineering slide sets.
I do remember when it happened - it was VERY noisy! Guy hit that overpass at speed.
p.s. very possibly my husband on the bike, above the cop's head
Pretty incredible, isn't it?
Too many people don't learn! It's so pathetic.
that was
the era of "stuck trucks for bucks"!
Around 1970 or '71
i forget exactly which year it was. I was an MIT student and had stayed on campus for the summer. Labor Day weekend, early evening, just after dusk, I was walking along Memorial Drive and heard an awful noise. I knew what it was instantly, without investigating. There was a police call box at the corner of Mass. and Memorial, by Building 1. I headed right for the call box and told the Campus Patrol about it.