A wrecked automobile — crumpled hood, collapsed fenders, stripped chassis — sits atop a whitewashed stone plinth like a macabre trophy, bearing the motto Despacio Se Va Lejos ("Slowly You Go Far") and the Rotary Club wheel emblem, while a cross carved into the stone gives the whole composition the solemnity of a roadside memorial. This remarkable real-photo postcard documents one of the earliest known road-safety public monuments in Mexico, erected by a local Rotary Club chapter likely in the late 1920s or 1930s along a federal highway. The Kodak paper back and image style date it to the same era. The reverse is blank and unposted, suggesting it was sold as a novelty or curiosity card to passing motorists — a rare artifact of early automobile culture and civic safety campaigns in Latin America.