Funeral Corteges Respect

Pull out in the middle, windows down, volume up, blasting out a bit of the Bee Gees!

Or more realistically, close the windows, turn the music down, and wait patiently, and just generally not be a **** and show a bit of respect.
 
Josh said:
I attended a friends funeral before who was apart of a 1% MC, someone tried to barge their way in even with roads being blocked by said MC, around 250 bikers iirc.

Wouldn’t have wanted to be that car, yes I’m sure what the MC were doing wasn’t legal but the delay would have been around 2-3mins. Is it really worth the agro for what is basically an add break.
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They're lucky they didn't end up bundled in the back of the hearse and thrown in the hole
 
I've only overtaken a funeral procession when it's reached a dual carriageway and I can pass in the outside lane using minimal extra speed over the procession to avoid being seen as impatient.

The local funeral director in our area has little black flags with a magnetic base they put on the roof of cars in the procession so you know which ones are involved, the also have 2 black mercedes e class estates that they use to race back and forth around the procession to try and block junctions to keep the processions together. They have fulll yellow lightbars on the roof and flashing indicators synced to the beacons. It's a very well organised professional setup.

Boggles the mind they have to do this to stop people being impatient and pushing in.
 
Where I grew up in Ireland, family and friends traditionally carried the coffin along the roads to the cemetery which was a couple of miles away. Some time in the late 90s or early noughties the coffin was carried aboout 500 yards before being loaded into the hearse.

Right up until I left around 20 years ago, when the procession was walking up the road, all traffic would stop and turn off their engines until the procession has passed, before starting their engines and continuing on quietly. Some drivers and passengers would even get ouf of their car, join their hands in front of them, and lower their heads in respect. Complete strangers many of them, but universally united in their respect for the funeral.

My grandfather passed a few years ago and one of the pervading memories I have of the funeral is whilst carrying him to the cemetery, some absolute ****stain dangerously and aggressively overtaking the procession in a terribly modified Zafira. Only a couple of cars stopped and turned off their engines, quickly followed by other drivers leaning on their horns. **** them, and **** the loss of our cultural decorum. What we had was special and it has decayed.
 
When I was in Northern Ireland we'd stop even when going the opposite direction to a cortege. I wouldn't stop now travelling against it but would slow down. I wouldn't overtake a procession unless they were traveling on a dual carriageway or motorway where there were multiple lanes and only really if they were going slower than the normal traffic flow. Otherwise, wait and let them pass and get on with my day afterward if safe and possible. I haven't experienced people overtaking and cutting in in the manner some others suggest but people need to show some respect, it seems lacking throughout society sometimes.
 
When my best mate died, We had a Massive funeral cortege, It was over half a mile long (just measured what I could still see from the front looking back) and we were allowed by other road users to go through Red lights etc and continue in 1 long line. You dont need to have known the person to show respects.

It similar to bad accidents on the motorway, It may delay you but chances are someone somewhere is going to get a knock on the door and their lives will change forever. Whilst you are just a little bit late. My outlook on those instances changed!!
 
I don’t think respect is really a thing now. Kids don’t respect their parents, the teachers, old people nor each other. I think enough time has passed that these kids are now adults. Reading about stuff like this and it feels like society in general is going down the toilet. Everyone seems to out for themselves. It’s saddening.
 
This type of thing wouldn't happen if you had a professional like Jeremy Dewitte controlling the funeral cortege.

 
I let them out together and don't pull out between them wherever possible.

I overtake funeral processions quite often as I pass a crem on the way to work, but that's passing on a dual carriageway rather than on a single carriageway.

On the few occasions I've been in the funeral car I don't think other traffic has been at the front of my mind to be honest!
 
One of the problems is the roads are ever busier and if not properly escorted it is often not very practical, not something I've encountered often but when I have it often isn't clear what or whether there is a cortege.
 
I'd let them do their thing. Perhaps there needs to be some change to legislation or regulations to require a procession to be escorted if over a certain size, or allow them to manage traffic with the appropriate measures in place.

That said I'm not sure potentially trying to impersonate an emergency vehicle is the solution:
The funeral director, who said he tried to keep off main roads and recently added white flashing lights to his hearses...
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I believe in some states in the US they use purple lights, which is equally tacky.
 
Always wait.

I have however passed a cortege before that the road was 2 lane duel carriageway, slowly I might add, would not class that as overtaking as such. Why would I stay behind a cortege for miles just making all the traffic back up, I see no disrespect in passing a cortege if the road is 2 lane duel carriageway, I would never actually "overtake" on a single lane road however.
 
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