Driver loses control and turns Brooklyn street into demolition derby

“I thought the Earth, the street was just opening,” Lillian Garcia, 57, told The Post.

Neighbors were woken to a scene of carnage about 2:10 a.m., when an out-of-control car plowed into several parked vehicles on Menahan Street, flipped onto its side and caught fire.

Video of the incident obtained by The Post shows a white car traveling at high speed before violently clipping several vehicles and bursting into flame.

Miraculously, the 28-year-old driver and her two female passengers, 17 and 24, escaped without major injuries.

No alcohol was found in the vehicle or detected by officers and an investigation into how the driver lost control is ongoing.

Residents said the crash sounded like an explosion and they looked out their windows to see giant flames shooting from the car.

“The noise woke me up. It was a very loud noise. So I got nervous and I called the police,” Garcia said. “I looked out the window and saw a car tilted on its side.”

“By the time I came out, the car was on fire. My husband was with me. So he went back in to get the extinguisher. He was able to put it out for a little bit but then it got higher.”

Firefighters responded to numerous 911 calls of a car crash and fire on Menahan Street between Cypress and St. Nicholas avenues, according to the FDNY. The fire was out by 2:45 a.m., officials said.

“I just heard a kind of crash and of course my first thought was that it was someone’s window being smashed,” witness Amanda Berrios recounts on the video.

“When I looked outside, I saw the car on its side,” she said, adding later: “I saw big flames.”

Berrios said her neighbor’s brand new car was among those destroyed in the crash.

Menahan Street was still a bomb site when The Post visited on Tuesday afternoon, with debris and damaged cars still littering the street.

“You see this stuff on TV but you never expect it to happen on your block,” Garcia said.

“I thought of an earthquake … I don’t want to hear it again.”