Former marshal of the Lubusz Voivodeship, Marcin Jabłoński, has been finally convicted for a traffic offense. The District Court in Zielona Góra examined his appeal against the first-instance verdict. The court found that he contributed to causing the collision on the S3 route. It upheld the fine but mitigated the sentence by shortening the driving ban from one and a half years to one year. For years, Jabłoński was an important politician of Civic Platform, and in November of last year he became an employee of the Multi-Specialist Provincial Hospital in Gorzów Wielkopolski.
The non-final verdict was issued on December 8 last year before the 6th External Criminal Division of the District Court in Świebodzin, located in Sulechów. At that time, the court found Marcin J. guilty of committing a traffic offense and sentenced him to a fine of 4,000 zlotys, payment of 500 zlotys in court costs, and imposed a one-and-a-half-year driving ban, including in that period the six months during which his driving license had already been confiscated. The former Lubusz marshal appealed against that verdict.
“There is no doubt that he contributed to the collision”
On Tuesday, the appeal was examined by Bogumił Hoszowski, a judge of the District Court in Zielona Góra. As Hoszowski said, there is no doubt that the accused contributed to causing the collision, but according to the court he was not the only one responsible for it.
“The court of first instance, when imposing the sentence, especially regarding the duration of the driving ban, incorrectly assumed that the accused had previously been punished for traffic offenses, because at the moment the verdict was announced those penalties had already been expunged. Therefore, in today’s ruling the duration of the driving ban was shortened by half a year,” the judge said.
He added that another premise for mitigating the sentence was the behavior of the second driver involved in the collision — a young man driving a 500-horsepower BMW who, according to the court, provoked the accused on the S3 route, and the accused allowed himself to be drawn into it.
He did not accept the fine
Jabłoński’s problems were connected with an incident on June 26, 2025. That morning, on the S3 route between Sulechów and Zielona Góra, the official Škoda Superb driven by him collided with a BMW and then with crash barriers. Nobody was injured, and the incident was classified as a collision.
However, footage appeared online showing the Škoda driving very close to the vehicle in front of it and then overtaking it in the right lane. The recording then shows the Škoda, while returning to the left lane, making contact with the overtaken vehicle before scraping against the barriers on the left side of the road.
The police officers handling the collision confiscated the then Lubusz marshal’s driving license and submitted a motion to punish him to the court because he did not accept the fine. After the case gained publicity, the local government official faced a wave of criticism.
Manager at a hospital
On July 11 last year, Marcin Jabłoński, who was also a regional councillor, announced his resignation from the position of marshal. The Lubusz regional assembly accepted his resignation on August 18, 2025, and elected Sebastian Ciemnoczołowski, previously deputy marshal of the Lubusz Voivodeship, as the new marshal. Jabłoński also suspended his membership in Civic Platform.
In November of the same year, he was employed at the Multi-Specialist Provincial Hospital in Gorzów Wielkopolski as head of project implementation.