Funeral home apologizes after hearse drops a body into traffic in ‘technical failure’
Late October is a spooky time of year. As Halloween rears its head, spectators can expect streets and neighborhoods to be lined with fancy facsimiles of ghosts, creatures, and popular characters. Frankly, it’s a fun time to take a drive. However, few folks expect to see an actual body on the boulevard. Unfortunately for one Polish funeral home, an ‘unexpected technical error’ involving a hearse left a corpse in a crosswalk as bystanders looked on.
A funeral home issued a public apology after an issue with one of their hearses left a body on a public crosswalk in Poland
Hades Funeral Services, a funeral home in Poland, sent a hearse through the city of Staloa Wola. It’s nothing out of the ordinary for the organization. The hearse contained the body of a deceased person on its way to a funeral. However, due to an unexpected and unfortunate issue, the corpse fell out of the hearse and onto the road behind.
According to the Associated Press, the driver of the hearse “feared that he had hit the person.” The person, of course, referring to the figure the driver noticed on the road. All things considered, it’s good that the figure in the street was an already deceased person and not a pedestrian. Still, the funeral home quickly issued an apology. However, social media images circulated a picture of the body in the road were less than kind. In one post by TaraBull on X (formerly Twitter), she wrote “Seriously? You had one job.”
In the apology, Hades Funeral Services attributed the event to a technical issue. “It is with deep regret that we inform you that as a result of an unexpected technical failure of the electric tailgate lock in the hearse, during the transport of the body of the deceased, an unfortunate event occurred which does not reflect the high standards of our company,” the funeral home said of the unfortunate spectacle.
The funeral home and services company then went on to assure the families of the deceased that they empathize. “Our deep empathy towards the families of the deceased, and the respect we always show to the deceased,” Hades Funeral Services said in the apology statement. Of course, a body in the street is a safety concern in addition to a question of respecting the dead.
