A teen driver who plowed his minivan into a car in Queens and fled crashed again soon after — into a building directly across from the home of one of of his hit-and-run victims, police and witnesses said yesterday.
Resident Enza Giordano said she saw the second crash, in which the minivan smashed into an unoccuped day-care center in a three-story brick building across the street from her home in Forest Hills.
“There was smoke, and the guy came out of the van saying his brakes jammed after an accident,’’ she said.
“Then my brother called. He told me about his accident and that my son was hurt. He described the hit-and-run car and I knew — same guy,’’ she said.
Steven Rodriguez, 18, struck Sal Giordano of Glendale in his green Toyota at the intersection of Woodhaven Boulevard and Union Turnpike and sped off, cops said.
Giordano had been driving his 13-year-old nephew.
Giordano’s knee was injured, and his nephew “bumped his head so hard there’s a big lump over his eye,” Sal said.
Minutes later, Giordano’s sister said, she heard a “big boom” outside their home on 82nd Street a few blocks away — and found Rodriguez crashed into a wall at a day-care center.