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Car-wash worker killed by SUV in ‘freak accident’

A Brooklyn car-wash worker was killed in a freak accident Sunday after the SUV he was driving suddenly accelerated, was struck by another vehicle and then ran over him as he fell out, authorities said.

The horrific incident occurred just after 3 p.m. at the Automated Hand Car Wash on Atlantic and Bedford Avenue in Bedford Stuyvesant, authorities said.

The worker was moving the SUV to get cleaned when it suddenly lunged out of the parking lot and into oncoming traffic, where it was hit by a Nissan Altima, authorities said. The worker then fell out of the SUV and was run over by it.

“I … was paying for my car to finish getting detailed when I heard a bang. I thought … ‘Oh God, my car!’ ” said James Blackwell, owner of the SUV, which he bought a month ago. “Another car smashed into it and knocked the car-wash employee out.

“It was a freak accident that he paid the ultimate price for it,” Blackwell said of the tragic worker.

Witness Isiah Pough, 20, said the victim “didn’t look like he was gonna make it. He got flattened.”

The employee was rushed to Kings County Hospital but was later pronounced dead, authorities say.

No criminality is suspected. Police said an investigation is ongoing.