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It is customary where I live for drivers to pull off on the side of the road when meeting a funeral procession coming from the opposite direction, even on roads four lanes wide or wider.
IN NY NH NJ PA GA, I've never seen anyone pull over (In Any Direction). Some Procession get police escorts crossing Controlled (Traffic light/Stop signed ) intersection.
IN NY NH NJ PA GA, I've never seen anyone pull over (In Any Direction). Some Procession get police escorts crossing Controlled (Traffic light/Stop signed ) intersection.
In Indiana, I would say it is mixed as far as people pulling over in my experience. Every procession I have seen had some kind of police escort.
IN NY NH NJ PA GA, I've never seen anyone pull over (In Any Direction). Some Procession get police escorts crossing Controlled (Traffic light/Stop signed ) intersection.
I'm from New Jersey and never see anyone pull over. Most people respect processions, though. Rarely do people cut into the middle of them and drive along with them instead of waiting, no matter how long the procession is. On highways, it could get a little hairy but in that case, I don't think people always mean to join the procession if they're on a highway. It's hard to not cut in when you're trying to merge.
Usually, processions get police escorts and depending on their length, roads are temporarily closed at times so getting in the way of a procession is often impossible for that reason.
I remember when my mom's best friend died of cancer at 45 years old, her funeral procession was 99 cars long. It was astounding, the funeral home employees had never seen anything like it. It went on forever it seemed, so many cars and so many people. It went through 5 towns, along extremely busy streets, with a huge police escort and street closures. No one ever seemed impatient. On the other hand, when my great uncle died recently, we had to take the Garden State Parkway a few miles to the cemetery and the procession broke up on the highway because people were merging into and between it and it was a mess. We got it back ok though off the highway. I'm always respectful of processions. I can spare a few seconds or minutes of my time.
Here in Texas, we pull over regardless of the direction of the procession. I've never seen a procession that didn't have a police escort.
If a military procession goes by, it is often accompanied by the Patriot Guard, and people will often get out of their cars and stand with their heads bowed as the procession goes by.
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I usually don't see them because I am texting.
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