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Driver’s Hell Hole

A TOTAL FLOP: Before landing in this Midwood construction pit yesterday, the driver struck a bike, a truck, a van and a car. Amazingly, no one was badly injured. (
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An SUV flew 50 feet into a huge construction pit in Brooklyn yesterday and flipped over on its roof after its driver hit a bicycle rider, a truck, a van and a car, witnesses said.

Miraculously, no one suffered serious injuries in the demolition derby, which took place at about 8:45 a.m. in Midwood.

The driver of the SUV, a 49-year-old woman whose name was not released, was not charged.

She tried to make a U-turn on Coney Island Avenue between avenues K and L in Midwood, and hit the bicycle, cops said.

“She was out of control. She hit a bicyclist, then a white truck, then she was coming right to me,” said Juan Carpio, 40, who was driving the van.

“I braked and she swerved not to hit me. But she did, and then hit a gray car and then the wall [around the construction site]. I saw her go through it.’’

Witnesses said the woman appeared to speed up instead of slow down after she struck the bike.

“She just came out of the parking space and hit me off my bike,” said Sean Young.

“I was on top of the hood and the car just carried me across the street. I thought she was going to hit an oncoming car and I was going to be pinned or something,” Young, 42, said.

But at least one person at the scene blamed the bike rider.

“The guy on the bicycle cut everyone off; he went from going with traffic to against it,” said a construction worker who asked to be identified only by his first name, Frank.

“To try to avoid him, she swerved to the side and hit two vans and went right through the plywood.’’

The driver was pulled out of her car by other construction workers.

“She was conscious. She was worrying about her bills instead of what just happened,” said Frank.

“She told the guys to go back inside the car and get her bills and her wallet. I guess she was in shock. She’s lucky to be alive. She hit dirt.

“Five feet over and she would have been done. She would have landed on concrete and rebar [reinforced steel.]”

The injured were taken to Maimonides and Kings County hospitals.

Personal items — including an umbrella, pocket dictionary and various papers — cascaded out of the wrecked car as authorities lifted it out of the hole.

Witnesses said that the construction had been stalled for about a year.Additional reporting by Daniel Prendergast