EXPRESS: The Lexus SUV is a mangled wreck after worker Steven Morales sent it plunging four stories down an elevator shaft. (Natan Dvir)
That’s one heck of a parking job, even by New York standards.
Two Upper East Side garage attendants yesterday miraculously escaped death after one accidentally rammed a customer’s luxury SUV through the doors of an empty elevator shaft. It plummeted four stories — coming to rest upside-down on an elevator car containing the other worker.
Making matters worse, cops last night charged the driver, Steven Morales, with driving without a license.
“It felt like it was a bomb!” said Angel Rosa, the worker who was standing in the elevator car on the ground floor of the Garage Management Corp. facility at 355 E. 76th St., when the Lexus RX350 landed above him at 9:43 a.m.
“I felt the impact when the car came down,” he said, adding he felt “absolutely” lucky to survive.
Authorities said Morales, was moving the Lexus, with New Jersey plates, when he drove through the closed doors of the elevator on the fifth floor.
“They have opened before and the elevator wasn’t there,” said Sandra Bally, of Valley Stream, a customer for 12 years. “I’m not surprised that this happened.’’
Authorities said the elevator got an “unsatisfactory’’ rating on recent inspections.
It took 45 minutes for firefighters to get off a door of the Lexus and extricate Morales, 21, who was in stable condition.