Buggy wifi driver, cannot uninstall

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Edit: solved: I was able to uninstall the bad driver in safe mode

I have a Lenovo X230 with a buggy integrated WiFi driver.
The hardware is Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205
The driver is version 15.10.3.2 date 22/08/2013
OS: Windows 8.1

This driver gives frequent BSODs on system startup with messages including "irq not less or equal", "bad pool caller", "bad pool header".

There is a new Intel driver 15.16.0.2 which the Intel Driver Update Utility 2.0 has found I would like to install it.

However the install results in a BSOD.

Uninstalling the current driver in Device Manager results in a BSOD.

Disabling the Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 in Device Manager results in a BSOD.

Turning WiFi off in the Windows networks tab works but doesn't prevent these BSODs.

Very grateful for help!