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Funeral HomeInPolandApologizesAfter ACorpseFallsOut of AHearseInTraffic
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A funeral home in Poland issued an unusual apology on Saturday after a corpse that it was transporting fell out of a hearse and into traffic.
Polish media reported that a man was driv- ing down a street Friday in Stalowa Wola, a city in south- eastern Poland, when he first saw a sheet on his car window.
When the sheet slid down, he saw a body lying on the road. For a moment the driver feared that he had hit the person.
Local media pub- lished an image of
the corpse lying on a white striped pedestri- an crossing where it tumbled out of the hearse.
The company trans- porting the corpse, Hades Funeral Services, issued a
statement Saturday taking responsibility for the incident and blaming a technical failure of the hearse.
“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 com- pany, our deep empa- thy towards the fami- lies of the deceased, and the respect we always show to the deceased,” the com- pany wrote in a state- ment posted on its website.
It apologized to “all those who were dis- appointed and upset by this event.”
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