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BAR OWNER: DEATH-LEAP SUV MOM DRINKING HEAVILY

The Queens woman who died after inexplicably leaping from a speeding SUV had been drinking heavily at a Flushing bar where she worked before stepping into the vehicle, her boss said today.

Judy Buccheri, a 41-year-old mother of four, was downing beers at Callaghan’s Eatery and Ale House on Parsons Boulevard, where she was a once-a-week bartender, along with the driver of the car, boyfriend Sandy Levine.

But the bar owner, who would identify himself only as Dan, said Buccheri was easily outpacing Levine.

“She had to be a lot higher number than him,” the owner said, referring to Levine’s nearly .06 percent blood alcohol content, as reported by cops. “The amount of intake was enough that we took her keys away.”

Levine, charged with driving under the influence and pot possession, huddled with his family today.

The owner said Levine had dropped into the watering hole once since Friday’s accident.

“He’s devastated,” said Dan. “He was in tears. His family had to come and take him away.”

Buccheri’s grieving husband, Tom, 45, said his wife had begun seeing Levine roughly a year ago, when the couple’s marriage hit trouble.

But he blamed Levine – and not his wife – for her bizarre death Friday night.

“For her to have to die the way she did, he wasn’t stopping,” he said. “She probably asked to be dropped off . . . Nobody just jumps out of a car.”

alex.ginsberg@nypost.com