Funeral procession etiquette in the South
Vložit
- čas přidán 27. 04. 2016
- Bob Landry, 70, of Kennesaw, passed away on January 5, 2015. Georgia Motor Escorts helped to escort the decorated Vietnam Veteran from St. Joseph Catholic Church in Marietta to his final resting place at the Georgia National Cemetery in Canton.
“You can’t do enough for the individuals that laid their life on the line to protect us and provide us with the freedoms that we’ve,” said Georgia Motor Escorts owner Jerry Braswell.
Braswell and his team captured helmet camera video of cars pulling to the side as Landry’s funeral procession moved by.
“There’s a lot of people, my age or older that if there's any possible way that they can pull off to the side, they will,” said Braswell.
“For people to pause and pay that moment of respect whether they know the person or not, I think that's a wonderful thing that we have here in our Southern traditions,” said Terry Pendley
While it is a Southern tradition, it’s not a law, for any Southern state. According to Georgia law, funeral processions have the right of way. For drivers, it’s illegal to interrupt a procession, join one or pass one on a 2-lane highway.
“You’ll see workers on the side of the road that stop and take their safety helmets off and put on and you’ll see people that will get out of their vehicle and put their hat over their chest as we go by and then there are others who blow the horn and go on by so we have a little bit of all of it here,” said Braswell.
Jerry said it appears to him fewer young drivers and transplants to Georgia will pull over.
“If your mother passed away you would want everyone to show as much respect as possible,” said Braswell. “I’m right serious about it (his job). All of our officers are. We do everything that we possibly can to let people know that this is something to show respect for.”
Thanks to all the men and women that serve...(my heart goes to you all) my dad is buried at the Georgia national cemetery in Canton 🥺😢
Touching. We should show this amount of respect for funerals in England, especially for fallen soldiers.
Pull over and wait, you can spare a couple of minutes.
Pulling over is decency and respect, no it is not law. If you choose to be rude and disrespectful then I guess that's what you want to do.
Ohio Scrapper True, but everything is slower pace in the South. In the North people are forced to rush.
The dead are dead, they have no needs. This world is for the living. I dont pull over, i have places to be.
I was in a funeral procession yesterday because my cousin's mom passed away, rest in peace Aunty 😢💔. And while we were driving thru Boston, we got to Mattapan, and this truck cut thru the line, he cut like 6 cars in front of were I was, so all of us are beeping and yelling for the guy to pull over, he did, I get your in a truck and you can't really see what's going on because cars are low and you're truck is big but still I think you can't still see the orange sticker on someone's car, so after he pulled over we continue the line, but worst because while we turned down this street, another car beeped at a car in our procession because they cut that person who was about to turn off, then some people wanna cross the street, my grandma almost hit this lady, I was like you should've hit her, then while we were entering the burial, this boy on a bike crossed the street, my grandma was like "that boy should've waited before he ends up in one of these graveyards too" that's one thing about funeral procession, this is my first time being in one, and I gotta see people have no respect, if you see car with a orange sticker that saids "funeral" in big letters on someone's car with there blinkers on, wait to cross the street or turn your car. The only ones who can interupt are emergency vehicles but usually they'll be respectful to and find another way down a street. if were at a red light then it turns green, we go through it but if it turns red again and your light turns green, stop beeping your horn, down try to turn or go straight and cut the line because you're gonna get hit. this is why I said to my mom, they should've requested a police escort, but she said they're expensive, its $200 to $500 depending how far the burial site is from the funeral home. show some respect people.
can*
I’m 24 and since I got my permit at 15 I always pulled over for a funeral. It’s not going dead.
This is the etiquette everywhere. Not just "The South".
Beautiful respect!!
Nothing makes me more upset than to see someone not pull over for a funeral procession. They're usually from outside of the Southeast...or FL... but if you see a funeral and everyone pulled over, take the hint and pull over, too.
*Something that Jeremy 🏍 DimWitt of Florida has to learn, the proper way of escorting a funeral!* 👍🏻
They figured it out! 😃
@@ysmith494 😷👍🏻
I get it that funerals are an important medium for the living to grieve their loss of the departed.
However, moving motor vehicle funeral processions traveling huge distances on high speed roads in busy metropolitan areas, while running red lights, AND taking the right-of-way of other unsuspecting road users are dangerous, risky rituals fraught with grave danger to the living.
Funeral processions are an archaic tradition that should be relegated to encyclopedias and history books.
To the ones who said it may be a southern tradition but it's not a fu***ng law, guess again, please research before write about something you know nothing about.
2010 Georgia Code
TITLE 40 - MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC
CHAPTER 6 - UNIFORM RULES OF THE ROAD
ARTICLE 4 - RIGHT OF WAY
§ 40-6-76 - Funeral processions
O.C.G.A. 40-6-76 (2010)
40-6-76. Funeral processions
(a) As used in this Code section, a "funeral procession" means an array of motor vehicles in which the lead vehicle displays a sign, pennant, flag, or other insignia furnished by a funeral home indicating a funeral procession unless led by a state or local law enforcement vehicle and each vehicle participating in the funeral procession is operating its headlights.
(b) Funeral processions shall have the right of way at intersections subject to the following conditions and exceptions:
(1) Operators of vehicles in a funeral procession shall yield the right of way upon the approach of an authorized emergency vehicle or law enforcement vehicle giving an audible and visual signal; and
(2) Operators of vehicles in a funeral procession shall yield the right of way when directed to do so by a traffic officer.
(c) Funeral processions escorted by the police, a sheriff, or a sheriff's deputy shall have the right of way in any street or highway through which they may pass. Local governments may, by ordinance, provide for such escort service and provide for the imposition of reasonable fees to defray the cost of such service.
(d) The operator of a vehicle not in a funeral procession shall not interrupt a funeral procession except when authorized to do so by a traffic officer or when such vehicle is an authorized emergency vehicle or law enforcement vehicle giving an audible and visual signal.
(e) Operators of vehicles not a part of a funeral procession shall not join a funeral procession by operating their headlights for the purpose of securing the right of way granted by this Code section to funeral processions.
(f) The operator of a vehicle not in a funeral procession shall not attempt to pass vehicles in a funeral procession on a two-lane highway.
(g) Any person violating subsection (d), (e), or (f) of this Code section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not to exceed $100.00.
(h) Any law enforcement officer who is directing or escorting a funeral procession in this state, whether such service is provided while on duty or not, shall enjoy the same immunities from liability as the officer possesses while in the performance of other official duties.
pulling over is not only stupid but more than a few people have died as a result of someone violating the law by stopping for the procession while traveling in another direction or in the same direction as allowed by law. tradition be damned if someone losses their life because of it. if you want to give respect for someone, do so but not at the expense of others and in violation of the law. many a funeral home and city have been sued for injuries because of this stupidity.
Fox 5 news is the only Fox news I trust.