Crash driver had run red lights before

BLOWING THROUGH red lights was nothing new to Raymond Mong.

Fifteen months before he plowed a Dahlia tour bus into an MTA bus Monday, killing himself and two others, he steered a car past a red light in Queens and smashed into a van.

The 49-year-old, who had already been busted for drunken driving and leaving the scene of an accident in Connecticut, was driving along College Point Blvd. and failed to stop at a light.

Moments later, his car collided with a vehicle driven by Laurence Torres, who was traveling along 22nd Ave. shortly before 6 a.m. on his way to work at an advertising firm.

“Out the blue, he just comes and there’s no way I could stop,” Torres recalled. “He’s already basically in the middle of the street, so I hit him, direct on.”

Torres, 37, escaped injury, but not amazement when he got a look at Mong’s wrecked vehicle, and noticed a breath -test device for unlocking the ignition.

Officials said Mong (photo) was required to use the device, the result of a DUI arrest in Connecticut that cost him his job as an MTA bus driver.