Funeral cars and passing

[sidewinder]

Whilst on a ride today on a nsl road i came across a procession of funeral cars doing 50mph.The road was long and straight and could of easily passed i did not out of respect and not really knowing if i should have or not.I was only behind them for around 1/2 mile at a respectful distance.Would you of passed them or stayed behind until they turned off?
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[arry]

Stayed behind. If they were doing 20 it may have been a different response, though.

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[MaybeGuy]

Would you resist overtaking a butchers van out of respect? It's a car with a load of partly rotting meat in it. I wouldn't think twice about overtaking.
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[weasley]

Two pages of discussing this scenario here.
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[yen_powell]

Try not to do what I did once. Overtake the first few limos then get stuck in the middle due to a long length of central reservation. Sad faces staring at me from the back window of the car in front, sad eyes boring into the back of my helmet from the car behind!!
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[Dilyan]

Am I being an idiot or is a used funeral car a fantastic "pimp my ride" opportunity? How cool would that be, especially on Halloween!
I'm sure they've all been driven carefully!
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[ninja_butler]

It's a forgotten courtesy, but in the old days people would be shocked and angry if you tried to overtake a funeral procession. I would never do it unless it was a real emergency.

[robbieguy2003]

I wouldn't do it out of respect for the person and family. Whats a few minutes of your life? If mostly they're in town anyway so if it's that bad just turn off and go a different route?
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[Fumps]

i would hang back out of respect.

I once saw a guy get dragged out f his car & given a skin full for barging into a funeral procession.

It was a pretty nasty slap.

[Deaks]

This instance I wouldn't overtake, quite happy doing 50mph for a bit.

Did overtake some funeral cars doing about 20mph, but only once we had got to a bit of road I could give them a lot of room, and didnt give it a big handful.

Funnily enough at the same place a few weeks later I had to pass a horse drawn wedding carriage (one of those big-fat-gipsy-wedding glass and white pumpkin looking things). Did exactly the same, mainly as I'm a horse person and didnt want to spook them (the horses not the pig ugly gipo bride!).
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[AlexW]

Discussed this on another forum. That scenario I wouldn't, If they were doing 20/30mph I would have overtaken assuming I wasn't about to turn off or if I thought they were about to turn off.

Whatever I'd do it with a bit of respect, no handful etc.

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[WannaBeDude]

Funerals cars and tractors are fair game for fat folk on 125s.
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[TheManWithThe...]

Filtering past a huge line of cars doing no more than 20mph on an NSL road...get to the front of the line and and theres horse drawn hearse trotting allong...
...couldn't bear the shame of overtaking them, so tucked in one car behind and sat for a few minutes dabbing the throttle to keep it moving.

Even when there were 3 lanes approaching a junction, i only inched past the procession, and right at the far edge of my lane so i didnt spook the horses...i can imagine the headline...

[Paulington]

Usually I don't mind staying behind funeral processions, in fact I pretty much never mind, respect for the passed and all that. .

I have passed a funeral procession COMPLETELY by accident though. I was going down the hill that leads to the left turn to my house and I was around the 12th car in a queue moving at around 5mph. I looked and saw nothing coming so I HOWLED past, like 10-12k RPM in first gear.

As I got to the front of the queue, this thought goes through my mind:

"Shit, funeral procession! .".

So as it turns out I'd just howled past and probably deafened the funeral procession and the bloke walking in the road at the front of them, I felt like turning around and apologising, never have I felt so sorry and embarrassed in a helmet! .
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[WannaBeDude]

On dual carriagways, people pass at a slowish pace, be more gridlock if they did not.

Also, often, one does it, then sheep follow.

Over taking on a bike or car on normal road is defo ' frowned upon '
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[Carl_steveo]

I was riding down the road when out of a side road walked the bloke who walks infront of the hearse. He stopped the hearse and waved me out. But I flashed and waited.

















Longest funeral procession of my life.
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[m1tch]

Problem solved:

https://www.goodfunerals.com/uploads/images/Transport/Motorcycle_Hearse.jpg

My mate used to be a funeral director, scared a few people on the motorway whilst getting somewhere (unloaded of course) the cars do have MASSIVE engines due to the need for the very slow speed they have to go usually, people don't think the are powerful but they usually are

[colin1]

I once overtook a ambulance that had its blue lights on.
Not quite as bad as it sounds as it was a dual carriageway, and they tend to only go 10mph above the speed limit.
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