The funeral service had a vehicle in passing lane with a bubble gum machine old style rotating light on its roof holding back traffic for miles. When I would crest a hill I could see the front of the procession about a mile ahead of me with no traffic ahead of it and traffic backed up behind me more than the two miles I could see back.

At one point I had just mentioned to the wife I didn’t think it seemed safe to be going 30 mph on the interstate that normally is 70 mph (as well as south bound cars stopping in the road and not pulling over to side) and it was conditions likely to cause an accident then shortly after that we passed a bad accident in the southbound meridian that had just happened (people were pulling over to run to the accident, and the dust literally hadn’t settled yet) where a car appeared to have been run over by a large 4X4 style vehicle, the roof and windshield appeared to have been collapsed and looked like there may have been another car somehow involved in the accident.

I understand respect for the dead but didn’t understand why for such a long stretch on a divided interstate the funeral procession couldn’t at least go and maintain the legal Minimum speed limit (which is 45 mph in most states, thought they still had to follow the law?), Also if it is a 65-70 mph interstate why must the procession go 30 mph and block both lanes for a 30 mile stretch of road. It took me an hour to go 30 miles (ironically passing several cemeteries) and I still had over 750 miles to drive before I reached my destination.

I hope everyone was okay from the March 31, 2018 accident, That is what I was looking up when I found this post.