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Great escape when the bough breaks

INCHES FROM DEATH: Zakee Moore (left), Shanna Brown and Keagan Lammy, after their car was smashed by a falling tree yesterday. (Paul Martinka)

A Brooklyn man nearly paid the ultimate price yesterday for a parking spot in front of his house.

Zakee Moore, 32, had just completed an early-morning run to the market and found an ideal spot on East 54th Street in Prospect Lefferts Gardens.

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Moments later, a tree crashed into the back seat of his 1998 Chrysler Sebring.

“It just started coming down, and I ducked,” said Moore, who suffered only minor injuries from flying glass.