Queens dad and two kids killed in car crash caused by drunken driver on Long Island
A Queens mother despairingly attempted to save her daughter from the family’s searing car moments after they were slammed by a drunken hit-and-run driver on Long Island early Sunday, friends said.
“She’s been telling it all day: ‘I attempted to open the door for Sephora, and I couldn’t get her out,’ ” family friend Sonia Michel said of grieving Lucnie Bouaz-Ostane.
Bouaz-Ostane tragically was also incapable to rescue her spouse and son. The mom was in the front passenger seat when a two thousand eight BMW slammed her family’s Toyota on the Southern State Parkway in Bay Shore at 1:30 a.m., cops said.
Her spouse, Ancio Ostane, 37, and their two children, Andy, 8, and Sephora, Four, were fatally trapped in the searing vehicle, police said.
The St. Albans family was returning from a gathering with relatives when the crash occurred.
Firefighters work on the searing car.
Oniel Sharpe, 24, crashed his BMW into a Toyota on the Southern State Parkway and caused the Toyota to burst into flames. He was arrested and charged with DWI and leaving the scene of an accident.
A father and his two children died inwards the searing Toyota.
Cops charged Oniel Sharpe, 24, with DWI and leaving the scene of an accident.
“It makes you question why do people get behind the wheel, why do people do stupid things like that, you’ve ripped apart a family,” Michel said.
The family friend said she had spent the day after the crash with Bouaz-Ostane, who she described as “inconsolable” but “strong,” given the circumstances.
She said Bouaz—Ostane, a blood technician, and her spouse, a math teacher had moved to the neighborhood from Haiti almost twenty years ago.
Survivor, 35-year-old Lucnie Bouaz-Ostane, mother of two and wifey of Ancio Ostane, 37. Ancio, daughter Sephora, Four,and son, Andy, 8, died in the fatal crash.
Andy Ostane, 8, died in the horrific crash.
Survivor, 35-year-old Lucnie Bouaz-Ostane attempted to save her daughter from the searing car. Her hubby, Ancio Ostane, 37, died along with their daughter Sephora, Four, and son, Andy, 8.
In May, the family had celebrated Andy’s very first communion, Michel said.
“They were lovely angels,” she said of the fated kids.
The family hopes the tragedy will discourage people from drinking and driving, she said.
“(Bouaz-Ostane’s) siblings were telling, one good thing that could come from this, if we can shine the light on tipsy driving and what it does, how it just rips people apart, it rips families apart,” Michel said.