Plea to respect those on their final journey

A FUNERAL services has issued a plea for respect after drivers repeatedly push in on their funeral corteges.

- BY GRETA SIMPSON

Deano Shaw and Ian Leary say vehicles even cut up their horse-drawn funeral processions.

Ian Leary has been at the helm of Middleton’s Funeral Services, with business partner Deano Shaw, for the past six years.

And in recent months, he said impatient motorists have been making their job - and the lives of grieving families - a nightmare.

Some cars, he complained, even budge in between a hearse and limousines in a desperate bid to get to their destination quicker, adding that he has even seen this happen with funerals involving horses.

He took to Facebook yesterday last week to ask the public for more consideration when they come across funeral processions out on the roads.

"Lately, we are having more and more drivers on the roads being impatient and trying to push in on the corteges," the post began.

"[They go] in between the hearse and the limousines with bereaved family members in, and even on funerals with our horses too.