No, this is not me picking up Harry’s thread about Wide Load. I wanted to write it before I saw his
I just had a silly situation today: I was driving on a long, straight bit of the road and there were several (6 or 7) cars in front of me doing about 30. So as there was noone going from opposite direction and no junctions as far as I could see, I just overtook them all at once (it was legal to do 60 on that road). Only when overtaking I noticed that in front of the people carrier there are two stretched limos and funeral car.
At the end of that road there was roundabout and at this roundabout there was a cop car, who stopped, waited for me and pulled me over.
He said “Do you know why we stopped you?”
I truly answered “No, I don’t”.
He said “You overtook the funeral, you shouldn’t do it, it means disrespect to the mourners”.
I told “OK, but people die every day and live has to go on, I am in hurry”
He said “This is not an excuse. but this time I just give you warning since you haven’t broken any laws, you can go”
Me: “So what that warning is for if I haven’t broken any laws?”
He (jokingly) “Just go, or I will find some law for you if you want”
Me (recalling that I noticed one of my side lights is off but was too lazy to change it because it was raining) “ok”.
So, is it OK to overtake a funeral? (lets forgot that I never noticed that it was the funeral at the first place).
If lets say a cortege of 20+ cars were part of a procession on a motorway travelling in lane 1, how would you know it was a funeral cortege, whilst lanes 2 and 3 were clear? What folks do around the M56 in Elton who have skills in block paving, tarmac and ford transit flatbed repair, tend to do is have three ford transits in lane 1,2 and 3 traveling at the same speed behind the cortege thus blocking anyone overtaking.
A long way from you Orys, but here in Queensland, the road rules say you have to give way to funerals. How Queensland coppers interpret that is anyones guess, cos they seem to make it up as they go along.
Anyway, how the ■■■■ are you s’posed to tell if it’s a funeral from behind.
i overtoook a funeral in chester once after being stuck behind it for a number of miles…i came to a part of the road which was 2 lanes for about 1/4 of a mile…mirror,signal,manoeuvre…off i go…trundling down the outside lane…oh ■■■■ theyve painted chevrons on the road filtering lane 2 into lane 1…■■■■ that wasnt there last week.i indicate and split the funeral procession up …i felt a right ■■■■ and was seriously expecting a complaint and would have deserved a bollocking,the only saving grace was i was in a 7.5t comet wagon which was black…never heard anything of it.
I congratulate you for beginning this thread and can hardly wait to hear the stories that it will generate.
Would I overtake a funeral procession?
In an artic? In my own car?
Yeah!!!
I only wish you’d taken the copper’s badge number. Can you tell us which force he works for?
When did this all BS start? I was going past a funeral procession only the other day on the A43 betwixt Corby and Kettering and there were cars overtaking on the dual carraigeway then seeing the hurse and putting thier brakes on and trying to join the end of the queue.
Let’s just hope the person in that coffin was actually dead and even if so they’re not in any position to give a rodent’s ■■■■■■ what the rest of the traffic does in any case.
Could the offended even begin to imagine the retribrution that could ensue from a truly ■■■■■■ off old lorry driver?
FFS don’t overtake our procession of trucks because in the last will and testament it said that the Cornish driver wants to be laid to rest in John O’ Groats because that was his favourite fishing spot.
It’s all a load of rubbish. I don’t get the slowness anyhow. When I go I want to be driven at 120 miles per hour in a coffin strapped to the roof of a BMW M5. That would do me. And knowing most of my friends and family they’d easily keep up.
switchlogic:
It’s all a load of rubbish. I don’t get the slowness anyhow. When I go I want to be driven at 120 miles per hour in a coffin strapped to the roof of a BMW M5. That would do me. And knowing most of my friends and family they’d easily keep up.
I agree so would I, But I would prefer the lid off the coffin on the roof, and go in Cabriolet style !!!
The last chance to have wind blowing through my receding lock’s of hair.
I’ll only overtake a funeral if I really have to but when they’re pulling out of the funeral parlour, I don’t mind stopping and letting them go at once. On the motorway however, i don’t see an issue.
I used to work in a funeral home in cardiff and when we would drive in convoy on SC roads nobody tried to overtake us but on DC’s they could pass with ease no problems for us or the family involved. thankfully there are plenty of respectful drivers who don’t try to push into the cortege and who let us all move off together like sam points out in his post.
I think orys was on a SC so a van blasting past is maybe a bit disrespectful but each to their own, as for those who’s wishes are to be driven at speed, it is possible just make sure you let the funeral director and the rest of your family know, all things are possible
And then, there is another reason to be in front of the funeral vehicle: you don’t want to hit his load when he looses it: patrz.pl/filmy/karawan-zgubil-zwloki
orys:
Ok, first thing I do after I die, I will let the funeral director know.
orys you’re so funny, most people know if they’re getting close and can make a request in a letter or make sure the family know, whatever strange requests you have a decent funeral director will follow your wishes
you could even get a coffin in white and red
switchlogic:
It’s all a load of rubbish. I don’t get the slowness anyhow. When I go I want to be driven at 120 miles per hour in a coffin strapped to the roof of a BMW M5. That would do me. And knowing most of my friends and family they’d easily keep up.
With Bertie strapped to the coffin screaming like a girl?
switchlogic:
It’s all a load of rubbish. I don’t get the slowness anyhow. When I go I want to be driven at 120 miles per hour in a coffin strapped to the roof of a BMW M5. That would do me. And knowing most of my friends and family they’d easily keep up.
With Bertie strapped to the coffin screaming like a girl?
no, bertie inside the coffin screaming like a girl to get out
skids:
I hate to see childrens funerals.
Depends where it is as to if i overtake or not. Motorway or dual then no problem.
childrens funerals were always the hardest to do, we had a team of the same 5 people that always did them and we would be nearly in tears at times. under 16 and the family never got a bill off the boss
I wanted to write it before I saw his 
…i felt a right ■■■■ and was seriously expecting a complaint and would have deserved a bollocking,the only saving grace was i was in a 7.5t comet wagon which was black…never heard anything of it.
if you know who i mean