It's special offer Wednesday with a bogoff scheme at the crematorium. He was hurrying back to base to fetch another customer.
Either that or the hearse belongs to the firm of Burnham and Spade, the city's most accident prone funeral directors who only realised when they arrived at the crematorium that they had forgotten to put the corpse in the hearse. This is the same company who were recently seen carrying a coffin all round City Road cemetery because they couldn't find the grave. They'd really lost the plot.