A Spanish tourist is in critical condition after being run over on her first day in the city by a livery-driver.

Maria José Hermosin, 58, was crossing 42nd Street at Third Avenue at 10:35 p.m. Sunday when David St. Bernard’s Lincoln Town Car sent her flying, police and witnesses said.

“It hit her from behind and threw her up in the air,” her husband, José Maria, 63, who escaped injury, said yesterday.

Hermosin was admitted to Bellevue Hospital with severe head trauma.

St. Bernard, 53, last year told The Post that he favored a legal ban on texting behind the wheel, even though he admitted that he “sometimes” did it.

But cops said texting played no role in the accident.

The Brooklynite was issued a summons for failing to yield to a pedestrian.