Notes:
At about 14h25 on Sunday, 18 December 1994, driver Bruno Boutet from Liège lost control of his red Alfa Romeo #24 in the small town of Fontin, during a special stage of the Rallye-sprint d'Esneux, which was the last event of the 1994 Belgian rally season. The car went off the road, bounced over a barrier, ending into an embankment where a group of about one hundred of people was watching the event. At least 14 spectators were severely injured, one of them Sullivan Malempré aged 5 from Fontin died several hours later.
All the injured were taken by ambulance to Esneux hospital. Amongs them were Philippe Malempré, aged 27, father of the deceased boy; Lucien Malderez, 42; Mrs. Rosana Digocelli, 49; Frédéric Lorenzetta, 20, and his brother Daniel Lorenzetta, 18; Jean-Marc Humblet, 27; Laurent Gillet, 24; et Eric Leroy, 23. The special stage was immediately stopped after the accident and the event was abandoned.
The 1994 edition of the rally was the first after seven years of stop, as a consequence of another nearly fatal accident which occurred in 1987. A number of protests were organized by Fontin citizens who were upset about the rally.
About six month later, the series of tragedies in rallies in Belgium continued with a second young boy killed during the 24 Hours of Ypres. This accident triggered extensive debates about spectator security and crowd control in such sort of motorsport event, that reached the Senate of that country. Several months later the Belgian Minister Jan Peeters proposed new rules in Belgian rallies, to be introduced the next year, including the prohibition to organize special stages in built-up areas.
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