Everyone using their emergency blinkers on the road?

[njdevilsfan87]

Today when I was driving up to my university, I was on a 2/3 lane highway when I noticed something I've never seen before. I was on the left lane, and at one point, when I looked over to the right lane, I saw someone using their emergency blinkers. So was the car in front of him, and the car in front, and another, and another... and I must have passed over 20 cars that were using their emergency blinkers. I sat there praying there wasn't some kind of accident that would have held me up in traffic, but there was nothing...

So I mean what happened here? Did somebody set off a false alarm? Is it a rule (or unwritten rule) to turn your emergency blinkers on if the person in front of you has their blinkers on?

Sorry if it's a stupid question, but let's just say I was one question away from not passing the written drivers exam three years ago.

 

[johnjohn320]

Funeral?

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Putting the fun back in funeral!

 

[purbeast0]

Originally posted by: johnjohn320
Funeral?

 

[slsmnaz]

Originally posted by: njdevilsfan87
Today when I was driving up to my university, I was on a 2/3 lane highway when I noticed something I've never seen before.

that's a small highway

 

[MotF Bane]

They were all cars, right? I've seen trucks do that on steep grades.

 

[Juddog]

Funeral?

 

[datalink7]

Funeral?

 

[PepePeru]

Wake?

 

[njdevilsfan87]

Originally posted by: slsmnaz

Originally posted by: njdevilsfan87
Today when I was driving up to my university, I was on a 2/3 lane highway when I noticed something I've never seen before.

that's a small highway

Also the worst. Driving on Route 18 is absolute hell around New Brunswick.. they've been working on it since long before I started traveling that road on a regular basis, and will still be working on it long after I'm gone.

So it looks like it may have been funeral... but I didn't see any vehicle that looked out of the norm. Just a bunch of cars.

Wow, well, never knew that for a funeral people did this. Learn something new everyday.

 

[Canai]

Originally posted by: johnjohn320
Funeral?

 

[thomsbrain]

Funeral.

 

[ViviTheMage]

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
Putting the fun back in funeral!

ha

 

[meltdown75]

Funeral?

FUNERAL!!

 

[Thegonagle]

Probably a funeral procession.

They used to have all the cars turn on their headlights to indicate that they were part of the procession, but with so many cars having always-on headlights these days, it would make sense that they have all the drivers turn on the 4-ways instead.

 

[Saint Nick]

street racing?

 

[OdiN]

Funeral?

 

[Lorax]

rock salt?

 

[bignateyk]

hmmm... i'm not sure why, but something tells me it might have been a funeral?

 

[CptCrunch]

Funeral?

 

[darkswordsman17]

Originally posted by: njdevilsfan87
I sat there praying there wasn't some kind of accident that would have held me up in traffic, but there was nothing...

A bit selfish, aren't we?

 

[eits]

wow. how didn't you know what a funeral motorcade was?

 

[nageov3t]

dst?

er... if not a funeral, my guess would be slow driving due to visibility.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: eits
wow. how didn't you know what a funeral motorcade was?

He's a New Jersey driver. Not surprising.

 

[loup garou]

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