A man accused of getting loaded and ramming his pick up truck into a group of Lower East Side residents celebrating July 4 last year faced heart- rending testimony from those reeling from the carnage as his quadruple murder trial got underway in Manhattan on Monday.

Daniel Hyden, 44, sat silently as friends and loved ones of the four people killed after he allegedly blew a stop sign, mounted a curb, and plowed his Ford F-150 through a fence into Corlears Hook Park last summer took the stand against him in Manhattan Supreme Court.

A distraught Liliana Ruiz, 51, broke down in tears as she told the court about rushing to her 30-year-old daughter’s aid and watching the life drain from her eyes as she lay wedged beneath Hyden’s truck.

“I’m tapping her face,” Ruiz testified, struggling t

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