A limo driver dodged a gory end by inches Thursday night — when a rain of metal poles pelted his car on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and impaled his windshield.
Munther Abu-Hamea was headed home to Staten Island by Cadman Plaza at about 8:45 p.m. when scores of scaffolding poles rolled free from a flatbed truck on the elevated westbound side of the expressway above him.
“I saw pipes, big, big pipes, 40 to 50 raining down on me,” said Abu-Hamea, who was driving a Buick Lacrosse. “They hit the roof and the back of my car. One pipe slammed through the windshield.”
The pole pierced the glass like a spike, between the 45-year-old father of six and his passenger side door.
“It was like bombs — boom, boom, boom, coming down on me,” he said. “The one that came right through the windshield almost hit me. I don’t know how I got out of it.”
The poles pelted a second vehicle, a 2013 Nissan Rogue driving close behind Abu-Hamea.
“I don’t know how the guy in front of me made it,” said the Nissan’s driver, Emil Dura, 57, a medical assistant from Brooklyn. “Now we’re laughing, but I thought I was going to die.”
The metal rain hammered his roof and tore off his driver’s side mirror, he said.
The NYPD’s Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Unit arrived on the scene shortly after to investigate.
Cops responded to the scene, but have not yet made any arrests and issued no summonses, an NYPD spokesman said Thursday night.
Abu-Hamea, who drives for Uber and for a limo firm in Brooklyn, said he was on his way back from a fare in Manhattan.
“I have three boys and the girls. I was worried I wasn’t going to see them again,” he said. “I’m lucky to survive this thing.”
