BUS DRIVER GOES FAST AND THE FURIOUS!

A tour bus driver whose license had been suspended a whopping 16 times was collared in Queens on Sunday after he tried to run over a cop and then led police on a high-speed chase, authorities said.

Anthony Judd, 48, of Jamaica, was behind the wheel of the empty, white tour bus owned by a Delaware-based company - even though he is no longer licensed to drive, police said. The only ID he had was a New York State identification card, police said.

The volume of outstanding license suspensions - which grew out of 11 incidents - meant cops could arrest him if he was caught at the wheel, police sources said.

"He knew he was going to get locked up for the suspensions, but he took it too far," one police source said. "This guy had no respect for human life."

"I can't believe Anthony would do something like that," said a female relative of Judd's who answered the door at his Queens address.

"Sixteen [suspensions]? How was he still driving? Why did he still have a license? Thank God the bus was empty."

Judd's wild ride began at 9:30 a.m. when he blew through a stop sign on a ramp leading into the Midtown Tunnel on the Queens side. MTA Bridges and Tunnels Officer David Rivera saw it and flagged Judd to a checkpoint, the sources said.

Instead of pulling over, Judd floored the gas, then fled out an emergency exit ramp.

He raced through a second stop sign before Bridges and Tunnels Sgt. Richard Cupo saw him barreling up the restricted-access road. Cupo stood in the road in front of the truck, waving an order for him to stop - but Judd kept driving.

"The sergeant had to jump out of the way," another source said. "With the way he was driving, he would have been run over and killed."

Judd ran a red light, then turned onto Hunters Point Ave. By that point, Cupo was following behind in a police car, with lights and sirens on. A second police car was also in pursuit.

After driving several more blocks, Judd finally pulled over at 49th St. and Skillman Ave. and was immediately arrested, police said. He was charged with attempted vehicular assault, fleeing an officer and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.

Officials with Silhouette Tours & Travel did not return calls.

The arrest comes two months after a tour bus driven by an unlicensed driver with a criminal record crashed on Interstate 95 in the Bronx as it returned to Chinatown from the Mohegan Sun casino, killing 15.

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