A big rig found out the hard way Friday that some San Francisco turns leave very little room for negotiation.
The truck became stuck near Jackson and Taylor streets in the city’s Nob Hill neighborhood on Sept. 25 after its driver attempted a turn that was too tight, according to an ABC7 News Bay Area video.
Footage shows the tractor and long trailer stretched through the intersection, with the cab already around the corner while the trailer remained angled behind it. The truck could not simply finish the turn or back out and remained there for hours.
The predicament quickly drew attention online, where viewers studied the parked cars, the narrow intersection, and the size of the rig while offering their own solutions. One commenter reduced the situation to a familiar navigation joke: “But GPS said I could turn here.”
A Little Tight
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The video gives a better sense of the problem than the word “stuck” does. The tractor had made much of the turn, but the trailer occupied enough of the intersection that there was little obvious room left for the driver to maneuver.
Several Facebook viewers focused on the vehicles parked along the street. One suggested moving the cars would give the truck room to escape, while another simply wrote, “Move the car to the right.” Those were viewer suggestions, however, not an established explanation for why the truck could not move.
The location added another complication visible in the footage: this was not a wide industrial road. The tractor-trailer was attempting to negotiate a dense Nob Hill intersection lined with parked vehicles.
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The situation was more than an awkward photo opportunity. KRON4 reported that San Francisco police responded shortly after 4 p.m. as the disabled truck affected traffic near Taylor and Jackson streets.
Police asked people to avoid the area while officers remained at the scene. No injuries were reported.
Just before 6:30 p.m., the department provided an update that the big rig had been towed away and vehicle traffic had resumed.
That left the truck, the intersection, and an unusually difficult turn to the internet, where the post continued attracting viewers with plenty of ideas about how the driver got there and how they might have gotten out.