A 23-year-old woman died in a car accident in New York on Staten Island, police said.

Police said a 23-year-old woman died in a dramatic single-car crash in Staten Island that split the car in half.

According to police, the driver was detained after a fatal episode.

An island business owner who showed up for work compared the bloody, rubble-strewn wreck to the Beirut.

An unidentified victim died from injuries sustained after she was thrown out of the passenger seat of the white Dodge sedan in which she was traveling, police said.

The episode unfolded around 4:45 a.m. Saturday, authorities said.

The 30-year-old was driving south when he lost control of his vehicle in front of 2545 Hylan Boulevard, near New Dorp Lane, in the New Dorp neighborhood and crashed into a “barrier wall,” the NYPD said.

“It looks like the car then crashed into a pole,” an NYPD spokesman said.

While the driver suffered minor injuries, the 23-year-old woman died at the scene, authorities said. “The operator has been taken into custody and charged,” an NYPD spokesman said.

Mario Basso, 31, owner of H2O Auto Spa on Hilan Boulevard, said he and his team arrived at work around 6:30 a.m. Saturday to be confronted by police investigating the wreckage about 100 feet from his business.

“I don’t understand how the utility [pole] still standing, he was hit so hard,” a shocked Basso said, adding: “The car was cut in half.”

The stunned owner said, while expressing condolences to the victim’s family: “This is a tragedy and it was a terrible morning for everyone involved. Everyone is very upset. It looks like Beirut. Debris and blood everywhere.”

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