Hours after four young people were killed in a deadly Queens crash, a second car carrying a group of friends swerved off a nearby road and also plunged into the water — but in this case, all escaped with their lives.
The accident happened Saturday at around 4 a.m. on 20th Avenue and Shore Boulevard — just a mile from the fatal accident that killed the foursome of childhood friends.
As the five pals reached the edge of 20th Avenue, the driver lost control of the 2010 Toyota — which hit a metal fence and overturned into the East River, sources said.
First responders arrived quickly but found all victims out of the water when they got there.
The group of friends—Tanuja Farma, 28, Carlos Ferreira, 28, Adeel Khan, 29, and Tony Lal, 35 — were treated for minor injuries and released from Mt. Sinai Hospital of Queens, sources said.
The occupants of the car told cops they had been at Club Central in Astoria and decided to stop by the nearby Neptune Diner, sources said.
Bizarrely, the occupants of the vehicle told cops they had only met the alleged driver of the car at the club when he offered to be the designated driver for the group and take them to Neptune for some late-night grub.
The man, identified only as “Mike,” fled the scene after the accident, the occupants of the car told police, according to sources.
Khan, the vehicle’s registered owner, was not cooperating with police, sources said.
He has a prior arrest for driving while intoxicated and at first gave cops a false name and date of birth. He was charged with impersonation.