Saturday 20th February 1993

Marian Bublewicz (42), the best Polish rally driver of the 80s and 90s, died in an accident just 2 kilometres after the start of 5th special stage “Orłowiec-Złoty Stok” of the Zimowy Rajd Dolnośląski – Winter Lower-Silesian Rally – in Poland. After a right fast bend he crashed his red and white Ford Sierra Cosworth 4×4 with race number 1, into an ash, the only tree growing in that place. Bublewicz was stuck in the car. Rescuers helped him only after three-quarters, he was still conscious when he was in the ambulance, and according to witness it seems he was talking with his 18-year-old daughter Beata. But when he arrived to the Ladek Zdrój hospital the doctors had no chance: squashed pelvis, broken leg and many inner lesions. Marian Bublewicz sadly died a few hours later.