A worker at a Brooklyn car wash was severely injured after a co-worker struck him with a customer’s car on Wednesday, cops said.
The injured man, 27, was wiping down a Toyota Sienna at Golden Touch Car Wash, on Fourth Ave. near First St. in Park Slope, when his co-worker, 37, sitting in the driver’s seat of the SUV, unexpectedly accelerated around 10:54 a.m., cops said.
The SUV lurched forward, striking the victim and a light pole, before plunging out onto Fourth Ave., where it T-boned a northbound Toyota Prius sedan, according to police and witnesses.
A worker at a nearby construction site looked on as the horrifying crash occurred.
“He struck one of his co-workers,” said the the 54-year-old hard hat, who declined to share his name. “He must’ve slipped off the brake pedal and hit the gas. The other guy was bending down to get the Armor All to do another car. He hit him and then he hit the pole.
“He dragged him to the pole.”
The victim struck his head as he was thrown to the pavement, according to law enforcement.
“He was out,” said the construction worker. “He had a big hole in his head. You could actually see his brain.”
The victim’s co-worker appeared shaken as he was led back into the car wash, where the victim’s father also works, the construction worker said.
“[The driver] was messed up,” he said. “They took him in the office right away.
“The father seen his son get killed.”
Medics rushed the victim to Methodist Hospital in critical condition.
The impact from the SUV sent the sedan crashing into a white Access-a-Ride van also traveling north on Fourth Ave., witnesses said.
The drivers of all three vehicles were uninjured in the crash, cops said.
