After 0.24 update, BeamNG crashes on application close

BeamNG crashes in regular mode and safe mode after the update. Windows 8.1 reports the following error:

Code:

Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:    APPCRASH
  Application Name:    BeamNG.drive.exe
  Application Version:    0.24.0.1
  Application Timestamp:    61a96d08
  Fault Module Name:    StackHash_cfc5
  Fault Module Version:    6.3.9600.20144
  Fault Module Timestamp:    615be385
  Exception Code:    c0000374
  Exception Offset:    PCH_53_FROM_ntdll+0x0003C5AC
  OS Version:    6.3.9600.2.0.0.256.48
  Locale ID:    1033
  Additional Information 1:    cfc5
  Additional Information 2:    cfc5c3e7b0d94f43828e2186f2350f2d
  Additional Information 3:    b43d
  Additional Information 4:    b43db7785f4d002dd7da5f213feef4d4

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It also crashes after verifying game file integrity.

A separate issue is that the default vehicle is always the stock default vehicle (and a wonderful D series at that).

Another issue yet is that beam appears to freeze while loading a map, yet the CPU and RAM are far from peaked.