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Deadly SUV horror

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An SUV driver who blew a stop sign on Staten Island triggered a grisly car wreck that killed one of his teen passengers and left another with a severed arm, police said yesterday.

Brian Pittsley fled the scene Monday night, but was arrested yesterday near his Brooklyn home after running barefoot from cops, police said. He was charged with leaving the scene and criminally negligent homicide.

Angel Rivera, 18, who was killed in the wreck, had begged his mother to let him stay out beyond his 9 p.m. curfew as he cruised around with Pittsley and six others.

“He said, ‘Mom, I’m having such a good time out here with my friends. Don’t make me come back already, please. Just a little longer,’ ” said the devastated mother, Mery Rose Vega, 34.

At 9:45 p.m., all hell broke loose.

Pittsley, 25, was driving his Chevrolet Suburban down Hillside Terrace in Great Kills and allegedly blew through the stop sign at busy Hylan Boulevard.

A Nissan Sentra driving along Hylan slammed into the packed SUV. The Suburban flipped and crashed into a parked car before coming to a stop, police sources said.

Pittsley fled, and all seven victims were rushed to Staten Island University Hospital, where Rivera died, police said.

Retired NYPD Officer, Robert Friscia, who lives nearby, heard the crash and ran outside. When he came upon the carnage, he saw Kayla Madden bleeding profusely from her horribly injured arm.

“She had a very large open wound and needed medical attention then. No one was stepping up, so I did, I just took care of it,” Friscia told The Post.

He used someone’s shirt and belt as a tourniquet and stopped the bleeding until an ambulance arrived.

“I kept her coherent. She was going in and out of consciousness. I kept her talking until they took her to the hospital,” Friscia said.

Madden, 17, underwent three surgeries to reattach her arm and will need one more, said her stepfather Robert Fezza.

She may also need surgery on her pancreas

“It’s touch and go right now. It’s nerve-wracking waiting for results,” Fezza said. “Kayla’s strong, though. She’ll pull through.”

Friscia said doctors told him yesterday, “If I didn’t do what I did, she would’ve bled out and died.”

Fezza said he’s never heard of Pittsley.

“I don’t know this guy and that’s what’s scary,” he said. “I just know that she went out with friends.”

The other SUV passengers — whose injuries ranged from facial cuts to a hand injury to a broken ankle — were identified as Patrick Dary, 18; Christina Brunk, 16; Stanley Weber, 18; Taylor Milan, 18; and Denise Russo, 16.

Nissan driver Andrew Conte, 20, suffered trauma.

Pittsley has five prior arrests, including busts for grand larceny, assault, resisting arrest, criminal mischief and petit larceny.

Vega said her son was a video-game fanatic who hoped to study computer graphics.

“He cared about his friends,” she said. “He was very respectful.”

Additional reporting by Jessica Simeone and Tim Perone