Letter: Many drivers ignore funeral precession law

Recently, I was in the largest funeral I ever have seen, for my friend of 40 years, Adrian John Flores. There were probably 50 to 75 cars in the precession. The funeral home in Lima ran out of flags ,so they tried to put a flag on every other car and told us to keep our headlights on.

There was only one motorcycle cop, so when the cars were leaving the funeral home, there was a flood of traffic. When they saw there was no cop at the intersection and one of the cars at the stop sign didn’t have a flag on the roof, they proceeded from east to west, breaking up the precession. This happened a couple of times, and getting through town even with the flags on our roofs was really hard. No one had any respect for these flags on our cars. I thought everyone knew what Ohio law is about funeral precessions.

There was even one teenager who cut in front of a car and then laughed at the driver. Apparently, that teenager doesn’t know the law either, and I don’t care how impatient teenagers are, they need to respect this law. Everyone is to pull over or to stop coming from either direction when a funeral precession is coming through an intersection or down the street.

A lot of people were appalled at the rude drivers while we were trying to get across Lima to the cemetery.