Heartbroken over li’l sis’ death in Qns. DWI crash

Jolenna Favor lived her life like an energetic, caring social dynamo, holding down two jobs and recording a podcast with her friends — all while doting on her 11-yearold son.

On Saturday, a drunken-driving crash brought her life to a sudden, tragic end. The 32-year-old was sitting in the passenger seat of her friend’s BMW as he barreled along a Queens street at 97 mph before slamming into a fence and trees. Favor (inset) died on the spot. “She was just a real beautiful soul,” said her older sister, Jovanna Young, 38. “She didn’t deserve that.” The two sisters lived in the same Inwood apartment complex in Nassau County, and people often mistook them for twins, Young said.

“She was outgoing, loving, caring. She was just the life of the party,” said Young. “She just loved life. She could be going through the worst times, and she’s still going to make you laugh, she’s still going to open up her door for you.”

Favor went out to get a bite to eat with the car’s driver, Nicholas Thompson, 35, her sister said.

But Thompson, who has a string of drunken-driving arrests dating back to 2008, had no business taking the wheel, authorities said. His license was revoked in 2011, and even after that he was convicted of driving under the influence in Pennsylvania in 2015, according to a criminal complaint.

Thompson was headed east on Rockaway Blvd. near the Nassau County border about 6:50 p.m. Saturday when he zoomed by an unmarked NYPD vehicle, nearly hitting it and forcing cops to swerve out of the way, the complaint alleges.

The officers had to drive more than 80 mph to catch up, and when they did, they found the BMW had veered off the road and into the woods, crashing through a metal fence, prosecutors said.

The BMW’s crash data recorder showed its speed at 97 mph five seconds before the impact; the speed limit there is 35 mph, the complaint alleges.

Thompson emerged from the tall grass, apparently drunk, and told police he lost control, and that his friend was in the passenger seat, prosecutors allege. He refused fu to take a blood-alcohol test.

Favor’s son, who has special needs, has seemed numb since her death, Young said.

“He telling you he’s OK, but you know how they say the eyes are the th window to the soul? I don’t see him h there,” she said. “I hope God makes him pay for what he did to my nephew,” she said of Thompson. “I hope his child will never have h to go through what my nephew is [going through].”

Favor and Young grew up in Far Rockaway, Queens, and moved to Nassau County — one after the other — raising their children together. Favor worked in a laundromat, and as a dietary aide at a nursing home. When she wasn’t working, her apartment was a social hub. Her friends and family nicknamed it “Club Jo,” and she’d often record a podcast there with two pals to discuss social media trends, her sister said.

Favor was planning a trip to Atlanta this week with friends to celebrate one of their birthdays. But at about midnight Sunday, police showed up at her sister’s door to break the awful news.

“They said there’s been an accident, and all of a sudden it’s like a scene from a movie,” Young said.

Thompson was ordered held without bail. He faces a slew of charges, including vehicular homicide, and a possible 25 years behind bars.