TRAGIC TURN

Kid fled B’klyn only to die in driver-ed crash

THE PARENTS of Brooklyn teen Anthony Baglivo, alarmed that he was falling in with a bad crowd, sent him to live with an uncle in a tiny hamlet in upstate Orange County three years ago.

But tragedy still found the 16-yearold Baglivo (photo), who was one of three high schoolers killed after a driver’s education car they were riding in lurched in front of a truck in Warwick on Tuesday.

“This is something that should never have happened,” Baglivo’s uncle John Fixsen, 46, told the Daily News, as he stood in front of the New Hampton home where his nephew lived.

“He dies in driver’s ed. The family wants answers. We want to know why it happened. We need closure.”

Fixsen, speaking two days after the crash, said Baglivo’s parents were overwhelmed by grief.

“He was an only child. The parents are devastated,” he said. “It’s a big piece of our lives that is missing. We are wishing the nightmare would end.”

Reached Thursday, Baglivo’s father said he had no words for his heartbreak.

“I’m just trying the best I can. That’s all I can do,” Guiseppe Baglivo told The News. “I don’t know what to say. I got no words.”

Guiseppe Baglivo described his son as a selfless kid who loved football and dreamed of becoming a Marine sniper.

“He cared about everybody else but himself," Baglivo’s dad said. “He put you before him. He was a respectful kid, a good family kid. He worried about family first.”

Claudia Krebs, 16, was at the wheel of the 2007 Chevy Malibu — with a driving instructor beside her, and Baglivo and two other teens in the back — when it scooted into the intersection and into the truck’s path. Krebs and the unidentified instructor, 60, survived.

In addition to Baglivo, Paul Van Doran and Lucas O’Connor, both 16, were killed. The truck driver was treated for non-life-threatening injuries.

The truck, which had a flashing yellow light, had the right of way. The car had a stop sign and a flashing red light, authorities said.

The victims — all of whom were wearing their seat belts — attended Goshen High School.

The school contracts with Decat Driving School in Middletown to provide summer training to students. Decat employees said they couldn’t comment.

The car had one steering wheel and an alternate set of brakes for the instructor.

“The instructor stated that he did not utilize the (second) set of brakes,” said Warwick Lt. Thomas Maslanka. “He didn’t know the (crash) was impending.”