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A survivor of a multi-car crash in Queens that killed three and injured 11 in 2016 is suing two Manhattan bars, claiming they “recklessly” sold booze to the “visibly” drunk man who wound up behind the wheel of the car she was in.

Cristina Cannizzaro filed the lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court Thursday against Avenue and Bar 9 claiming both establishments served alcohol to driver Michael Fabre, 25, even though he was “visibly and/or actually intoxicated,” the night of Aug. 30 and into the early morning of Aug. 31, 2016.

Cannizzaro — a passenger in Fabre’s car — claims Avenue, located in Chelsea, and Bar 9, situated in Hell’s Kitchen, “negligently and recklessly” served drinks to Fabre, causing him to “fail to have his vehicle under proper control,” according to the court papers.

Fabre was driving eastbound on the lower level of the Long Island Expressway in Maspeth, Queens, at the time of the crash.

The suit says the car mounted the wall on the left side of the roadway and then slid approximately 100 feet along the top of the wall — “striking an upright support pillar causing the vehicle to split into two parts, severely injuring” Cannizzaro.

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Fabre, an Army National Guard sergeant from Oakland Gardens, Queens, and two of the four other passengers riding in the 2010 black Infiniti were thrown from the car and died at the scene.

A 2012 Acura hit part of the Infiniti after it crashed — and a second smash-up then ensued when a truck slammed into five stopped vehicles.

Investigators at the time said the drivers of the Infiniti and Acura may have been in a high-speed race.

Fabre — an aspiring city correction officer — had just asked his girlfriend’s father for permission to marry Bianca Sagliocca, 22, two weeks earlier.

Avenue and Bar 9 did not immediately return requests for comment.

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