A man who died after the SUV in which he was riding rear-ended a parked backhoe in the Bronx was steps away from his autobody shop, where unused equipment had been left outside for weeks, according to the victim’s grieving family.

Mohamed Salim, 44, was killed when the 2017 Toyota Highlander in which he was riding shotgun slammed into a backhoe parked on E. 233rd St. near Provost Ave. in Baychester around 10:30 p.m. Friday. The 24-year-old driver had lost control of the vehicle, police said.

The crash unfolded in front of House of Benz, a Mercedes auto workshop owned by Salim, who opened the business after working as a mechanical engineer for Mercedes for more than a decade, his heartbroken family told the Daily News.

“My son is gone,” lamented the victim’s mother, Bibi Salim. “What is money or power if I end up dying for no reason, like my son?”

It was especially tragic Salim died during Ramadan, a holy month for muslims, his heartbroken mom said.

“I will do charity in honor of him. That’s all I can do now,” she said.

The victim’s family said the backhoe the SUV crashed into had been parked in the same spot for two weeks.

“The city sanitation department parked a front-end loader there. It was broken during the winter storm, with a hydraulic hose broken and oil on the ground,” said Jidat Kondayya, the victim’s father.

“They put some cones around it and left it there, right next to where my son’s shop is,” Kondayya said.

“The driver crashed into that front-end loader and destroyed the vehicle,” he said, adding that “the fire department had to cut the doors off to get them out.”

Medics rushed Salim to Jacobi Hospital, but he could not be saved. The young driver and another 44-year-old man in the backseat were taken to the same hospital and are expected to survive, according to police.

Kondayya puts some of the blame for the crash on the city, alleging the backhoe was parked illegally. A city sanitation lot is one block away.

“That front-end loader was parked there for more than two weeks, double-parked in the middle of the street,” Kondayya said. “If I double-park, the police give me a ticket. But the city leaves a huge machine there for weeks.”

“I’m not telling you the law. I’m telling you logic, common sense,” he insisted.

The victim’s younger brother was more reflective.

“There are a lot of red flags about this situation, but I’m waiting for the detectives before drawing any conclusions,” said Jason Kondayya, 35, adding: “It was obviously a car accident involving city equipment, but we don’t know exactly what happened.

“There could be other factors like speed, the driver, whether someone was under the influence. I don’t know,” he said. “We’re not looking to blame anyone. We’re just trying to get to the bottom of it.”

Salim, whose family is Guyanese, started working for Mercedes-Benz immediately after high school, according to his family. The luxury car company paid for him to attend college in Arizona, where he got an engineering degree, his father said.

Salim worked for Mercedes-Benz for 14 years before striking out on his own.

“After a few years he saved money and branched out into his own business,” Jason Kondayya said.

The News has reached out to the city Department of Sanitation for comment.

There have been no arrests as members of the NYPD Collision Investigation Squad work to determine what sparked the crash.