The first fatality in the 24-year history of the Rally Zlatni Piassatzi occurred on Saturday, 08 May 1993. The accident claimed the lives of two Bulgarian rallymen, the rookie driver Nikolay Nenov and his more experienced co-driver Ivan Ivanov.
During the second special stage of the event, which was a round of the 1993 European Rally Championship, the Nissan Sunny GTI-R #35 of Nenov-Ivanov went off the road in a sharp curve and rolled down an embankment, ending against a rock. Both its occupants were killed at the scene.
The accident happened on a narrow mountain road near the Black Sea port of Varna, Bulgaria, 420 kilometers east of the capital city Sofia. Winners of the rally were Pierre-César Baroni-Hervé Sauvage in a Lancia Delta HF Integrale.
R.I.P