Overtaking a Hearse?

mickob16

Was driving from Cork back to Waterford the other day and passed a hearse going the other way with a line of cars behind it.

Got to thinking what if the hearse had another say 30 miles to travel.Would it be disrespectable to pass it out or would you just have to be patient and wait

sentient_6

If it was a regular road id probably wait with the hope its not going very far......i did overtake a hearse on a motorway before though & make no apologies for it.

jaffa20

30 miles:eek: Of course i'd overtake if it was safe to do so.

alias no.9

On a motorway, I'd pass it. On a national primary road, unless it was an obvious funeral cortege, I'd pass it. Within a town or on a regional road, not even if there was an opportunity to pass.

mickdw

A hearse I would overtake, a funeral I would not.

Paparazzo

I would. If you have ever been in the situation in a funeral car the last thing on your mind is people overtaking you. Go for it.

milehip1

alias no.9 wrote: »

On a motorway, I'd pass it. On a national primary road, unless it was an obvious funeral cortege, I'd pass it. Within a town or on a regional road, not even if there was an opportunity to pass.

mickdw wrote: »

A hearse I would overtake, a funeral I would not.

What these guys said, anything else is bad ju-ju, unless you have a major emergency on your hands.

Up-n-atom!

On a bit of a tangent, isn't that what they blame for Mayo's bad GAA record in the last few years? The team were supposed to have overtaken a funeral or somesuch. Anyhow, actual funeral processions are generally short (especially the very slow ones where the mourners are walking behind the hearse) so I guess a bit of patience wouldn't to amiss.

flanzer

Yes for sure. If it's safe to do so.

Most of the times I've met a funeral on a national road, they've quite sensibly, been in the hard shoulder. There was one time though, just outside Moneygall, the funeral was out near the middle of the road, and I was very close to blowing the horn in disgust

challengemaster

Being dead does not give you or your family the right to obstruct an entire main road. Hearses and the brigade that insist on walking behind them at <5mph for miles.... Words cannot describe the anger I feel towards them.

PARKHEAD67

challengemaster wrote: »

Being dead does not give you or your family the right to obstruct an entire main road. Hearses and the brigade that insist on walking behind them at <5mph for miles.... Words cannot describe the anger I feel towards them.

Hope this doesnt come back to haunt you;).

Wolflikeme

challengemaster wrote: »

Being dead does not give you or your family the right to obstruct an entire main road. Hearses and the brigade that insist on walking behind them at <5mph for miles.... Words cannot describe the anger I feel towards them.

+1

If the funeral has nothing to do with me (obviously), I'd overtake when the opportunity arose. I don't see how it's being disrespectful either. If they think they've a right to take over main roads then it's them that's being disrespectful. Honoring the dead shouldn't include pissing everyone else off.

bazz26

I'd prefer to undertake a hearse. :pac:












I'll get me coat. :P

johndaman66

I'm moving a wee bit away from the specific topic under discussion but does anybody here stop yer vehicles when a funeral is coming against them on the road until the hearse passes. Obviously not on a primary road or motorway but in a built up area or local road?

I was in town the other day and witnessed people doing as such. Admittedly it was more the case the traffic going against the hearse was stop go and some people were more specifically waiting till the hearse passed to start moving again. Have never seen people do this before in all my years of driving.

Croc

Its the law in the states you have to pull over, even if the funeral is coming the other way.

tfitzgerald

I would never pass a funeral I think it would be disrespectful and that's nothing compared with the bad luck you would have.

mickob16

johndaman66 wrote: »

I'm moving a wee bit away from the specific topic under discussion but does anybody here stop yer vehicles when a funeral is coming against them on the road until the hearse passes. Obviously not on a primary road or motorway but in a built up area or local road?

I was in town the other day and witnessed people doing as such. Admittedly it was more the case the traffic going against the hearse was stop go and some people were more specifically waiting till the hearse passed to start moving again. Have never seen people do this before in all my years of driving.

Im in Tramore and most people pull in and turn off engine if a funeral is passing.Its just respect-costs nothing

Plazaman

Overtake whilst blowing your horn loudly, flashing your lights and if the opportunity arises, roll down the window and shout "get of the road ye louts".


Wait did you say a hearse or a horse?

mickob16

Plazaman wrote: »

Overtake whilst blowing your horn loudly, flashing your lights and if the opportunity arises, roll down the window and shout "get of the road ye louts".


Wait did you say a hearse or a horse?

:D:D:D:D

Neilw

I was attending a funeral a few years ago which had a Garda escort, 3 or 4 Garda bikes. We had to take the M50 for a few miles, the Garda bikes stopped all traffic onto the m50 at each slip and the last bike stopped any cars overtaking us.

challengemaster

Neilw wrote: »

I was attending a funeral a few years ago which had a Garda escort, 3 or 4 Garda bikes. We had to take the M50 for a few miles, the Garda bikes stopped all traffic onto the m50 at each slip and the last bike stopped any cars overtaking us.

Good to see appropriate use of the Gardaí :rolleyes:

bryaner

mickob16 wrote: »

Im in Tramore and most people pull in and turn off engine if a funeral is passing.Its just respect-costs nothing

Yes thats the same here. I've no religion but its good to have respect..

bryaner

challengemaster wrote: »

Good to see appropriate use of the Gardaí :rolleyes:

Obviously there was a reason for this type of Gardai presence, high profile funeral possibly causing traffic problems..

milehip1

Up-n-atom! wrote: »

On a bit of a tangent, isn't that what they blame for Mayo's bad GAA record in the last few years? The team were supposed to have overtaken a funeral or somesuch. Anyhow, actual funeral processions are generally short (especially the very slow ones where the mourners are walking behind the hearse) so I guess a bit of patience wouldn't to amiss.

yeah i heard that, supposed to have been the last time they won Sam in 51, overtook or came asross a furneral blowing horns etcs on the way home,the priest overseeing put a curse that they wouldn't win another till every amn on the team was dead.

Methinks 'tis bull tho I'd imagine teams travelled by train in those days.

challengemaster

bryaner wrote: »

Obviously there was a reason for this type of Gardai presence, high profile funeral possibly causing traffic problems..

You think blocking off the entire m50 and not allowing people to overtake wasn't causing traffic problems?

johndaman66

mickob16 wrote: »

Im in Tramore and most people pull in and turn off engine if a funeral is passing.Its just respect-costs nothing

Hmm, I cant say Ive seen it been done before much ever but then again its maybe the case I've just never noticed it being done. Its not like you would see too many funerals on the road either (well me anyway). Now that I think about it I'll nearly do it myself from now on but not in a situation where it could potentially cause a crash or furstration amongst other road users.

Neilw wrote: »

I was attending a funeral a few years ago which had a Garda escort, 3 or 4 Garda bikes. We had to take the M50 for a few miles, the Garda bikes stopped all traffic onto the m50 at each slip and the last bike stopped any cars overtaking us.

I don't particularly agree with this at all, high profile or not. Why should one be allowed to avail of such costly and limited State resources for free. The high profile argument doesn't really wash with me...where do you draw the line. It all seems a bit Irish really.

bryaner

challengemaster wrote: »

You think blocking off the entire m50 and not allowing people to overtake wasn't causing traffic problems?

Hardly the entire M50! Just pulling up enough traffic to let the cortege travel together

vetstu

Neilw wrote: »

I was attending a funeral a few years ago which had a Garda escort, 3 or 4 Garda bikes. We had to take the M50 for a few miles, the Garda bikes stopped all traffic onto the m50 at each slip and the last bike stopped any cars overtaking us.

It's not unusual to have Guards blocking roads for funerals. Happens all the time.

Del2005

Croc wrote: »

Its the law in the states you have to pull over, even if the funeral is coming the other way.

Not in all states.

But saying that in some states funeral cortèges are allowed exceed the posted speed limit and get police escorts through traffic.

coylemj

My brother was killed in a traffic accident a few years ago, we had to bring his coffin from the town where the post mortem was held to our home town for the funeral, the journey was along an 'M' motorway. The undertaker insisted on driving the hearse at about 40 mph all the way along the motorway, in the left lane obviously. I was bringing up the rear and got so scared watching cars roar up on to my tail and then overtake when they realised how slow I was going that I overtook the hearse and drove to our home town at what I considered a safe speed.

The alternative as far as I was concerned was that somebody would come up from behind and then get a call on the mobile or get momentarily distracted by a child in the car and rear end me at speed. There is a very good reason why slow vehicles are banned from motorways.

In towns and on minor roads down the country there is a tradition that oncoming traffic stops and pulls over to let the funeral pass and nobody would dare to overtake if going in the same direction.

coylemj

Croc wrote: »

Its the law in the states you have to pull over, even if the funeral is coming the other way.

I doubt that very much, every state in the US has it's own traffic regulations.