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Innocent driver injured in high-speed crash

An innocent driver was seriously injured when a speeding car carrying two vandalism suspects slammed into his van at 80 mph as the men were attempting to flee from cops Sunday night, police and witnesses said.

Three housing cops first encountered one of the suspects as he was beating on an unoccupied parked car with a baseball bat near the Marcy Houses along Park Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant at around 10:30 p.m., authorities said.

As police approached, the man got behind the wheel of a black Chrysler 300 with a waiting male passenger and sped off, grazing the three officers with the side of the vehicle, cops said.

The fleeing suspects turned onto Myrtle Avenue where they sped through a red light at the corner of Throop Avenue and collided with the van, causing it to roll onto its side door and trapping the driver inside.

“The black car was running from the police. He ran the light and hit the van,” said witness David Menedez, 25. “It just flipped right over. It was so crazy.”

The victim, a repairman in his 60s, suffered a broken jaw and other injuries, a co­worker said. He was listed in critical but stable condition at Woodhull Hospital.

The driver of the getaway car was seriously injured and is currently being treated at Kings County Hospital.

His partner suffered minor injuries and was treated and released from Woodhull hospital.

Both men are expected to be charged sometime Monday.