In recent years, Boston has seen an uptick in disruptive bridge strikes on Storrow Drive.
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Seven years ago, Trillium Brewing Co. released a beer called Storrowed. Co-founder JC Tetreault says the seasonal IPA is released around Labor Day each year. It's a public service announcement to local college students.
Showing off the image of a "Storrowed truck" on the side of one of the company vehicles, he acknowledged "it's a little bit silly."
“I mean, who puts an image of a crashed-up truck on the side of their truck?" Tetreault said.
This year, Trillium ironically became one of the latest "Storrowing" statistics.
“Ultimately, you kind of have to laugh when situations like that, because how cruel is karma in those situations?” Tetreault reflected.
In May, a new Trillium truck driver was following his GPS instead of his training. His box truck, traveling to the brewery’s Fort Point location, crashed into a low-clearance bridge near Massachusetts General Hospital.
“Your first instinct is, ‘Oh my God, I hope nobody was hurt,’” said Tetreault. “And then when you find out that nobody was hurt, the second feeling is, ‘Well, I hope the beer's okay.’ The beer and the spirits in the truck were fine. We did lose 80 lbs. of smoked chicken wings.”
Massachusetts' Department of Conservation and Recreation told us they're in discussion with navigation apps to help create solutions — perhaps drivers in oversized vehicles getting some kind of alert on their GPS about low-clearance bridges — so the frequency of these crashes will start to trend in the opposite direction.
