AIBU to overtake a hearse?

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So today on the way home from school I had just pulled onto a dual carriageway and there was a hearse with some cars behind it. They were going to a near by crematorium. I pulled into the outside lane and drove past it.

My mother was in the car and she had a right go at me for being disrespectful and how she was embarrassed to be in my car. When I looked in my mirror no one else had passed the hearse.

Is this a thing? In my 30 odd years driving I've never heard this.

Was I being unreasonable to pass the hearse?

Afraid so - perhaps just a lesson learnt

It shows respect to just wait behind it.

Yes you were BU.

On a dual carriageway - no you were fine

Yes, very rude indeed.

Golly. You don't overtake hearses.
It's very disrespectful to the mourners.

Yes it's a thing, sorry OP.

Yes, you were disrespectful.

I'm sorry, but I disagree with PPs. If it was a dual carriageway, then it would be no problem. If you were on a residential street, then it's a different matter.

Gosh yes you shouldn't overtake a hearse. It's just good manners to wait behind it especially if you know it's not got far to go. Noone is in that much of a hurry.

I wouldn’t overtake on a normal road but surely a dual carriageway is fair game?? 🤔

I wouldn’t care about that on a dual carriageway at all. Seems stupid for everyone to go slowly behind it creating a build up of traffic?

OMG! Really! Even on a dual carriage way!
Wow.
Agreed lesson learned.

Gosh feel a right douche now.

I agree with this. Single track road? Absolutely not. Multiple lanes? Surely it's fine. If they have to use the motorway are we really suggesting all lanes go slow?

I think it's ok to do so on a dual carriageway- you weren't weaving around a side street, it was a clear pull to the side and round.

https://www.dignityfunerals.co.uk/advice/funeral-procession-etiquette/#:~:text=Only%20overtake%20a%20procession%20on%20a%20dual%20carriageway

here you go OP. You only overtake on a dual carriageway. Your mum is wrong.

I wouldn't overtake, it's just a few minutes to show respect.

Partner works in the funeral business - he says it's absolutely fine to overtake on a dual carriageway, but not on a single lane road (but people still do!)

Also not cool to split the hearse from the limos at junctions/roundabouts.

Absolutely would overtake on a dual carriageway! Nuts not to!

I'd expect to not overtake a hearse normally but I think it's fine on a dual carriageway.

Dual carriageway - I think you were fine.

I would have done the same and have been in a funeral procession when overtaken in this way and was not at all offended - death is a part of life, happens to us all and life carries on for the rest of us...places to go, people to see.

Ah ok. I wouldn't do it on a residential road and I wouldn't split the hearse and the limo. But thought on a dual carriage way it was ok.

Theres a crematorium just off the m11/a14... no one just stays in a single lane behind the funerals!

Breaking through a procession, or going the other side of the road is rude. Not necessarily using both lanes of the road.

Not on a dual carriageway!!! Normal roads absolutely, but a dual carriageway is fair game.

As someone who has been a mourner in a procession, I couldn't have cared less if someone overtook us.

It is absolutely fine.