Boy, 6, gets carjacked, but he’s OK

But when someone gets killed, what about this?”

Polak said she has been friends with Darmetko for 25 years. She went to the hospital after the crash, and even saw the body, but still couldn’t believe what happened.

“The nurse in the hospital said the the driver was definitely speeding, that he was hit hard,” she said. “I saw his neck. I saw his hands, the scratches.”

Polak and another neighbor, Josef Bednarski, were planning to have dinner with Darmetko Sunday night. Darmetko said he would go to church with them, but then went biking instead.

“Yesterday I called his phone and a cop answered,” Bednarski said.

That’s how he found out about the accident.

Darmetko, who worked as a contractor, is survived by a son and grandchildren in Colorado, friends said. The rest of his family lives in Poland.

Bednarski had a key to Darmetko’s apartment, where the victim lived alone. The walls of his one-bedroom place are covered in biking photos and numbers from road races. Bednarski said Darmetko had been riding for 40 years. He also loved to ski.

Another neighbor, Gesilene Gonzalez, said she didn’t know Darmetko very well, but often saw him with his bike.

“He rode a lot,” Gonzalez said. “He had a helmet and everything. He was an avid rider, He was super fit. He had a car in the garage downstairs. But he preferred his bike.” A 6-year-old boy left alone in the backseat of his uncle’s idling car Monday was taken for a hair-raising ride by a witless thief who snatched the vehicle without realizing a child was in the back seat, police said.

Ronald Mowatt was found safe and sound in Brooklyn less than two hours after the joyless ride; he was evaluated by a doctor as a precaution, cops said.

The thief is still being sought.

The drama began about 1:15 p.m. in Canarsie, on Avenue L near E. 96th St., where the little boy’s 28-year-old uncle had pulled up to pop in and buy something at Bernardo’s Plumbing Supply, cops said.

When the uncle returned, his parked and running vehicle was gone, along with Ronald.

“A regular of mine,” said Bernardo’s worker Chris Walker, 45. “He comes in here, he orders two 12-inch ball valves, pays me $12. He said to me, ‘They stole my car. With my nephew in there.’

“I watched the guy get out of his car — not even two minutes.”

Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea tweeted the boy’s picture and a picture of the car, a white Acura with Georgia license plates.

The car and Ronald were found about 3 p.m. at Georgia Ave. and Linden Blvd. in East New York .

It wasn’t immediately clear if the uncle would be charged.

“Man,” the uncle said, “I’m just glad that we could get him back.”

The Rev. Cecil Moonsam, an NYPD clergy liaison, agreed.

“They found the car and they found the child and everything is well,” Moonsam said.