diff --git a/MUNGA/ENTITY.cpp b/MUNGA/ENTITY.cpp
index f74bbc4..26bf7f5 100644
--- a/MUNGA/ENTITY.cpp
+++ b/MUNGA/ENTITY.cpp
@@ -1483,6 +1483,45 @@ void
 	//
 	if (!IsCondemned())
 	{
+		//
+		//---------------------------------------------------------------
+		// Stop being anybody's vehicle before going on the row.
+		//
+		// Player::playerVehicle is a bare pointer that nothing ever
+		// cleared. The task that empties this row deletes one entity per
+		// frame, and a replicant Player runs GoToVehicle EVERY frame -
+		// it reads playerVehicle->localOrigin to follow its pod around.
+		// So from the moment the vehicle was fried, every one of those
+		// frames read freed memory. It normally survives on the garbage
+		// still lying in the block, which is its own kind of bug: a
+		// remote pod following coordinates that are no longer anything.
+		//
+		// Caught by the podium rig under full page heap, where the block
+		// is decommitted instead of merely stale: an access violation in
+		// Player::GoToVehicle reading a VTV whose free stack was
+		// FryDeathRowTask::Execute -> VTV::`scalar deleting destructor'.
+		//
+		// Cleared here rather than in ~Entity: the entity is still whole
+		// at this point, the groups are all still standing, and it
+		// happens exactly once. A destructor doing this would run during
+		// Shutdown too, when the Players group may already be gone.
+		//---------------------------------------------------------------
+		//
+		EntityGroup *player_group = entity_manager->FindGroup("Players");
+		if (player_group != NULL)
+		{
+			ChainIteratorOf<Node*> iterator(player_group->groupMembers);
+			Player *player;
+
+			while ((player = (Player*) iterator.ReadAndNext()) != NULL)
+			{
+				if (player->GetPlayerVehicle() == this)
+				{
+					player->ClearPlayerVehicle();
+				}
+			}
+		}
+
 		entity_manager->deathRow->Add(this);
 		SetCondemnedFlag();
 		NeverExecute();
diff --git a/MUNGA/PLAYER.h b/MUNGA/PLAYER.h
index 1794ce7..7f678a8 100644
--- a/MUNGA/PLAYER.h
+++ b/MUNGA/PLAYER.h
@@ -331,6 +331,16 @@ public:
 				playerVehicle = player_vehicle;
 			}
 
+	//
+	// The vehicle is going away. SetPlayerVehicle cannot say this - it
+	// Checks its argument, so it will not take NULL - and every reader
+	// of playerVehicle tests it for NULL first, so this is all they need
+	// to stop following a pod that no longer exists.
+	//
+	void
+		ClearPlayerVehicle()
+			{Check(this); playerVehicle = NULL;}
+
 	Mission*
 		GetMission()
 			{