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‘Haunted’ SI house hit by ‘DWI’ car again

VICTIMS: Lisa Roman and daughter Leonora suffered burns and broken bones when a car smashed into their Tottenville home.

VICTIMS: Lisa Roman and daughter Leonora suffered burns and broken bones when a car smashed into their Tottenville home. (Paul Martinka)

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A drunken Staten Island driver nearly killed a sleeping mother and child when he plowed his car through the side of their home yesterday morning — 10 years after another boozy motorist crashed through the very same house, police said.

Charles Trainor, 22, lost control of his 2010 Hyundai Elantra at about 4:10 a.m. yesterday while heading north on Lee Avenue in Tottenville, just a couple of blocks from his home, according to police.

He crashed into the box-shaped Arthur Kill Road home — planted right near the curb at a T-intersection — where Lisa Roman, 40, and her daughter Leonora, 5, were sleeping on a pullout couch in the kitchen.

“All of a sudden, we woke up to a boom!” said Roman’s daughter Melissa, 17, who shared the home’s only bedroom with her 15-year-old sister.

“We were trying to call out to my sister, because she wasn’t responding,” the teen added. “I was trying to pull my mother out . . . [She] was more than halfway under the car. We thought it was a nightmare!”

FDNY responders pulled out the victims after about 20 minutes and rushed them to Staten Island University North Hospital, cops said.

Trainor — who blew a .24 on a Breathalyzer, three times the legal limit, according to authorities — was charged with vehicular assault, operating while intoxicated, and operating while impaired by drugs, police said.

He told cops he was on Keppra seizure medication at the time, a source said.

Lisa Roman was badly burned on the back and had a broken leg. Her 5-year-old daughter was burned on her arm, and suffered broken facial and leg bones.

They were both listed in critical but stable condition last night.

Another vehicle crashed through that same house in August 2002, when a boozed-up Philip Cutler, 20, plowed into the home then occupied by ailing grandmother Eleanor Rohrig, according to the Staten Island Advance.

Cutler’s 1972 Dodge Ram, tricked out with monster-truck tires, stopped just two feet from Rohrig’s bed.

“If he wanted a cup of coffee to get sober, he didn’t have to drive his truck into my kitchen,” Rohrig told the Advance at the time.

“He could have just knocked.”

Additional reporting by Doug Auer and Kate Kowsh