'Storrowed' In August, Stuck Box Truck Causes Backup

BOSTON — Tis the season. As folks start to gear up for moving season, a box truck that thought it could make it down Soldiers Field Road inbound at North Harvard in Allston, couldn't. When it hit the overpass there, it prompted State Police to close off the right turn lane while crews work to get the truck out.

For those of you who are just tuning in, "storrowed" is the Boston term for when a truck that's too tall to make it under a low bridge - usually on Storrow Drive - misses the warning signs and gets stuck underneath, often ripping off the top of truck and or creating a backup on the roadway. In some cases, trucks have been known to flip or roll over.

And there's a marked rise in such happenings around Boston's Sept. 1 move in date, as folks from out of town drive around the city.

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