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Driving Under the Influence

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  • A traffic signal that is bent and broken, with a vodka bottle jammed in its stem; representing vodka as a cause of driving accidents. Colour lithograph, 19--.
  • A skull in a drinking glass at the steering wheel of a motor vehicle, representing the fatal effects of drunken driving. Colour lithograph.
  • A vodka bottle on its side driven like a sports car; representing people who drink and drive as criminals. Colour lithograph by Z. Waszewski, 1961.
  • A bottle of alcoholic drink with a red flag attached to it; advertising the danger of driving after drinking. Colour lithograph, 193-.
  • A drunk cyclist who has driven into a lamp-post exclaims that the lamp-post had suddenly appeared there; a traffic warden replies sarcastically that the lamp post was drunk. Colour lithograph after H. de Kort for Veilig Verkeer Nederland, ca. 1996.

Catalogue

    • Pictures

    Crossed-out glasses filled with alcohol, lined up along the road; warning against drinking while driving. Colour lithograph for the Verwaltungs-Berufsgenossenschaft, ca. 2000 (?).

    Verwaltungs-Berufsgenossenschaft. | Date: [2000?] | Reference: 780414i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A skull in a drinking glass at the steering wheel of a motor vehicle, representing the fatal effects of drunken driving. Colour lithograph.

    | Date: [between 1900 and 1999] | Reference: 32611i
    • Books

    National transportation safety board public forum on alcohol and drug safety education.

    | Date: 1986
    • Books

    Drugs and driving / editor, Robert E. Willette.

    | Date: 1977
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A drunk cyclist who has driven into a lamp-post exclaims that the lamp-post had suddenly appeared there; a traffic warden replies sarcastically that the lamp post was drunk. Colour lithograph after H. de Kort for Veilig Verkeer Nederland, ca. 1996.

    Kort, Hein de. | Date: 1996 | Reference: 2066412i
    Part of: Alcohol en verkeer
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