15 years for Brooklyn slay by car

A drunken driver from Brooklyn will spend 15 years in prison for turning his car into a killing machine during a fight with his boyfriend, mowing down a college student and causing a pregnant woman to lose her baby.

Terrance Smith, 39, had nearly three times the legal limit of booze in his system when he rammed into Michael Joefield, a 21-yearold Medgar Evers College student who was Rollerblading in Brownsville on April 8, 2017. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter last month and was sentenced Monday to 15 years in prison.

Smith was driving his 2012 Infiniti near Glenmore Ave. and Powell St. when he started arguing with his boyfriend who was in the passenger seat, prosecutors said.

“I’m going to crash this b—h, I’m going to kill us!” he said as he pumped the gas and barreled down Powell. His speedometer hit 97 mph before he crashed into Joefield (inset), sending the college sophomore flying headfirst into a van. The impact shattered his skull and killed him instantly.

Smith kept driving and crashed into four more cars, including a livery cab carrying a woman who was eight months pregnant and her toddler daughter. The mom lost her unborn baby, and the cab driver and little girl were injured.

Smith bailed out of his car near Junius St., leaving his boyfriend bleeding in the car, then tried to hide near scaffolding several blocks away, prosecutors said.

“This defendant intentionally turned his vehicle into a weapon and senselessly killed a promising young man,” Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said.

“His actions placed many others in danger that night and caused additional injuries. We will never tolerate this type of criminal and deadly behavior on our roads.”