A young couple was killed in a wrong-way crash in Queens early Saturday when their motorcycle slammed into a van, police said.

The 22-year-old motorcyclist, Steven Goddard — with his 20-year-old girlfriend Amy Gutierrez seated behind him — was whizzing down 43rd Avenue near 38th Street in Sunnyside against the flow of traffic around 3:30 a.m., cops said.

Suddenly, he crashed into a red Ford E250 van heading north on the one-way street.

The couple was pinned under the van, and suffered severe body trauma, cops said.

They were rushed to Elmhurst Hospital Center, where both were pronounced dead. Both were wearing helmets, cops said.

Gutierrez’s mother Juana Gutierrez, 42, was devastated.

“The doctor called me,” she told The Post in Spanish through a translator. “He said there was a crash. He said he was sorry and he wanted me to come and identify the body. I put on my clothes and went in a cab. When I saw her, I started crying. They gave me medication and it relaxes me.”

“When I saw her [at the hospital], I hugged her, I gave her lots of kisses all over her face,” Gutierrez said of her daughter, who wanted to be a criminal lawyer. “I touched her face. I ran my hand through her hair. I told her that ‘The Lord is with you.’ I said, ‘Give me the strength to be strong.’ Now I have the strength to carry on but it’s not going to be easy. It’s going to be very hard.”

“Now, I won’t see her married or have children. It pains my heart. I had two daughters. Now I only have one.”

By Saturday afternoon, nine white candles with the words “RIP Amy and Steven” were placed at the corner where the crash happened.

The 27-year-old van driver remained on scene and refused medical attention.

No arrests were made, cops said.

On the sidewalk outside Goddard’s apartment building — only blocks from the scene — around 40 relatives and family members gathered and signed a large piece of cardboard with messages including “SKG + Amy,” “I love you both, sleep in peace,” and “Love you bro. Never be forgotten. You was the man!”

A bouquet of white carnations was also on the ground outside the building — as well as two bottles of Hennessy, one empty, the other full. A tender photo of the couple kissing was also left behind.

“They loved each other,” Goddard’s dad, also named Steven Goddard, said, gesturing toward the photo.

“Thank you everybody who came,” he told those gathered at the memorial. “Everyone here is my son’s friend. I’m a strong dude but this is different.”

“I tell him don’t ride the bike,” Goddard added. “I tell him, I tell him a hundred times.”

One of Amy’s cousins, Samuel Gutierrez, 21, said he couldn’t believe the news when he first heard what happened.

“I called around and asked more family members,” he said.

“I was in a state of shock, disbelief,” he added, shaking his head. “It hasn’t hit me yet.”

“There is going to be an empty hole in the family now that she is gone.”