Dashcam Georgia
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Maybe not everyone can afford a police escort? Below is one I was in last year, I was the trailing vehicle.
I've never seen a funeral procession with a police escort unless it was some dignitary or other VIP. Here in MI all vehicles have a 'funeral' flag mounted and the last vehicle has 4 of them to signify the end and the procession is led by the hearse. All vehicles are also required to have their headlights on.
Laws vary by state and it appears that GA does no require a police escort.
https://www.mwl-law.com/wp-content/...ND-FUNERAL-PROCESSION-LAWS-CHART-00143368.pdf
No argument about that. It seems the procession was traveling at fairly high speed making vehicle intervals difficult to maintain. Around here I don't think I've ever seen or been part of one that traveled over 25MPH which makes it fairly easy to keep pace with the vehicle in front. Funeral directors can easily control this....but without interval control/requirements, the chance of cross traffic accidents is still there.
Yes, if law enforcement were to comment on the video, they would probably say that it "costs too much" to provide escorts for all funerals.
Those might be off duty cops but they were "for hire" and not free. My aunt booked them for the services. From the funeral home to church then from the church to the cemetery.
One of my favourite YouTubers, The Angry Video Game Nerd had a side series called "You Know What's B******t?" and he did an episode about exactly this.
If I'd hired a car in America that day, for example, I'd have gone on my green light and honked my way through those unmarked cars thinking they were colour blind or something. Might be a bit of a stupid question but how can you actually even tell sometimes? Or can't you? Like Rajagra said, it just seems absolutely absurd. I mean we even hear you go "What the? ... oh, must be a funeral"
In the UK we have very distinctive black herses and black limos that travel at about 15mph from A to B.
Anyway here's the video I was talking about. I agree so much with it despite not knowing the American road laws. Why risk having another funeral from a car crash just to parade one already happening? Madness.
Several years back, I was in a funeral process where the start point was a church and the end point point was cemetery with a crematorium. The person representing either the funeral home or crematorium stated that its a myth that cars in process are exempt from traffic lights rules AND that we must stop at stop signs and red lights. To ensure the cars at the end of the procession, which would be us, would able to get to the destination, I believe we were given a pamphlet with a map and address at the back.
edit: We and other cars in the procession had flags, but it didn't stop other drivers from cutting in the line
Canada is influenced by the both the States and UK on various matters. I think for driver safety, Ontario can be creative having rules no other or few other jurisdictions in the continent have, such as the bus bay law.Sounds like Canada got their common sense from the UK.