Should you ever overtake a funeral procession?
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I wouldn't do it unless on a dual carriage way. Providing g overtakes are quiet and respectful I don't think the people in the procession will care much as their thoughts will be elsewhere. I personally don't fo it because I can afford 5 minutes and respect others difficult times. It's the way I was brought. Personally I don't do it but if I am part of the funeral procession and someone chooses to do it its a free world.. I don't care
The only time I've ever overtaken one was a couple of months back on the M42. The first I knew of a hold up was when I saw an HGV swerve to the middle lane, followed by a number of cars. As I approached, I thought it was some old duffer in a black Jaguar estate dawdling along at 45mph before realising it was actually a hearse.
I never overtake hearses deliberately, I've been in a couple of corteges and I know what it's like for those in the limo. However when we're talking about a free-flowing motorway, I won't tuck in and crawl behind at 40 because a coffin is in transit. That's just the funeral directors way of drumming up more business.
I never overtake hearses deliberately, I've been in a couple of corteges and I know what it's like for those in the limo. However when we're talking about a free-flowing motorway, I won't tuck in and crawl behind at 40 because a coffin is in transit. That's just the funeral directors way of drumming up more business.
I wouldn't pass one most of the time on a single carriage way, but would on a dupe carriage way. I'm not sure why anyone would wait behind one. Stopping on roundabouts I don't understand. That's just dangerous. The rules of the road still apply, and stopping on a roundabout is a good way to cause an accident. Basic road safety should not go out the window.
DonkeyApple said:
jamei303 said:
In some parts of the US they get angry if oncoming vehicles don't stop for a funeral procession.
What's the correlation between those 'parts' or the USA and the parts where people bang their sister and shoot block people? I have never seen that personally, but then I don't live in a state where people salivate at the thought of deflowering their cousin
I've overtaken a hearse on a single carriage road..... but in my defence it was my grandmother whose funeral I was late for and I'm sure she would have seen the funny side.
When I apologised to the undertaker after the service he said it happened all the time and they got shouted abuse regularly, this was rural Dorset.
When I apologised to the undertaker after the service he said it happened all the time and they got shouted abuse regularly, this was rural Dorset.
To look at this I would try to put myself in that situation - If I was in a coffin, being overtaken would be the least of my problems! When my time comes overtake and if you have a sports car give it the beans!
I have never over taken a herse out of respect, I nearly did once by mistake when I couldn't see it due to lorries, I then fell back in line.
I have never over taken a herse out of respect, I nearly did once by mistake when I couldn't see it due to lorries, I then fell back in line.
Few years back my car was used as a wedding car for a friend (low budget wedding!), realised we needed something from the shops, so jumped in the car (with wedding ribbons on) and cut through the estate to the shops, at one junction I pulled out into a gap in slow moving traffic, only then realising I'd just pulled into the middle of a horse drawn funeral procession, in a car covered in wedding ribbons....
...that went down well!
...that went down well!
I have never understood why a funeral hearse requires a 3.0 plus engine when they only seem to be required to do a maximum speed of 20mph. Was it not a 2.9 Cosworth lump in James Mays death mobile on one episode of Top Gear?? Well my question was answered the day we said goodbye to my dear old neighbour Percy at Stoke crematorium. After the guys had bundled him out of the back and into the care of the crem staff they all jumped into the Coleman Moss and I s
t you not, hooned it up the road like they stole it! I have never seen a hearse hit 60 in 7 seconds but that one did.
They must have been very late for something but trust me. No one was overtaking that one!
t you not, hooned it up the road like they stole it! I have never seen a hearse hit 60 in 7 seconds but that one did.They must have been very late for something but trust me. No one was overtaking that one!
Ozzie Osmond said:
1,500 people die every day UK. Which means enough funeral processions to bring the nation to a complete standstill if they were all to creep about in low speed convoys with nobody passing them.
Whilst it's not unreasonable for the bereaved to hope the rest of the nation may show suitable respect, they need to bear in mind the need for the rest of the world to be able to carry on as usual.
"Respect", yes. "Political correctness", no.
I've only come across two and I've been driving ten years, so I doubt it would bring the country to a standstill. Whilst it's not unreasonable for the bereaved to hope the rest of the nation may show suitable respect, they need to bear in mind the need for the rest of the world to be able to carry on as usual.
"Respect", yes. "Political correctness", no.
For one I stopped on a fairly large but single lane roundabout to avoid breaking up a convoy, the car behind looked bemused but a couple of the passengers smiled and gave a thumbs up so the gesture was appreciated. The look of confusion on the face of the driver disappeared when they eventually realised what happened.
This guy tried to overtake a hearse and it didn't end very well.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/grieving-fami...
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/grieving-fami...
Pothole said:
On the back wheel, wrong siding a traffic island, giving the coffee beans to everyone in the cars, surely?
The dead person couldn't care less.
I was going to say, if you're going to pass, surely you'd do it on one wheel. Pull a fourth gear minger so they can't read your plate.The dead person couldn't care less.
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