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2013 opens with a smash

NEW YEAR BASH: An officer yesterday cuffs an allegedly drunken driver who got banged up after cops said he plowed into four people outside a bar.

NEW YEAR BASH: An officer yesterday cuffs an allegedly drunken driver who got banged up after cops said he plowed into four people outside a bar. (Roy Renna / BMR)

HELL ON WHEELS: Cops inspect a crashed Acura yesterday that struck revelers and smashed into cars on 93rd Street in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. (
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A drunken driver sent bodies flying and wrecked several parked cars after he allegedly got smashed at a problem-plagued Brooklyn night spot on New Year’s Eve, cops and witnesses said.

Charles Amado, 34, mowed down four fellow patrons as they left the 93 Lounge in Bay Ridge at 3:35 a.m. yesterday, cops said.

“One of the partygoers jumps in his car and runs into a few people, backs the car up and hit another gentleman,” said witness Tameka Council.

“He hit them like bowling pins.”

All four were hospitalized, including a 29-year-old man who suffered critical injuries and was fighting for his life.

Cops said Amado was so wasted that he sideswiped four parked cars before plowing into the pedestrians on 93rd Street between Third and Fourth avenues.

Amado, a resident of the Concord section of Staten Island, allegedly tried to get away by throwing his 2012 Acura into reverse, but smashed into two more parked cars.

Andrea Jobity, who was with him in the car, then took the wheel but did no better as she hit another two parked cars while backing up, police said.

Both were hospitalized with minor injuries.

Amado was charged with vehicular assault, driving while intoxicated and reckless driving, authorities said.

Jobity, 39, was charged with DWI and aggravated unlicensed operator of a vehicle.

Neighbor Deoneicia Davis, 25, said: “I was half asleep when I heard someone say, ‘Run! Run! Run! They’re trying to hit us!’ ”

Davis also said the 1999 Toyota Camry she shares with her fiancé was parked on the street and got “completely destroyed.”

A custodian at the club said his 2008 Honda Accord was extensively damaged.

When asked what happened in the bar, he responded: “All I can say is it was crazy in there.”

Block association president Stephanie Moustakas, who lives across from the crash scene, said she was “disgusted” by the bar’s history of drugs and violence.

Ronald Coury, the owner of 93 Lounge, did not return a call to his Staten Island home, where a woman said he was sick in bed with bronchitis.

Additional reporting by Daniel Prendergast