Queens, NY Mom Devastated After Losing Family In Car Wreck

A Queens mom is left devastated after losing her family in a car crash caused by a drunk driver over the weekend.

Lucnie Bouaz-Ostane is left feeling a great sense of lost and hopelessness after losing her husband, Ancio Ostane, son Andy, 8, and daughter Sephora, 4, in a tragic car wreck, Sunday night.

According to NY Daily News, Bouaz-Ostane desperately tried to save her daughter from the family’s burning car moments after they were slammed by a drunken hit-and-run driver on Long Island early Sunday, friends said.

“She’s been saying it all day: ‘I tried 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 unable to rescue her husband and son. The mom was in the front passenger seat when a 2008 BMW slammed her family’s Toyota on the Southern State Parkway in Bay Shore at 1:30 a.m., cops said.
Her husband, Ancio Ostane, 37, and their two children, Andy, 8, and Sephora, 4, were fatally trapped in the burning vehicle, police said.
The St. Albans family was returning from a gathering with relatives when the crash occurred.

Cops charged O’Neil 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 torn 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 husband, a math teacher had moved to the neighborhood from Haiti nearly 20 years ago.

In May, the family had celebrated Andy’s first communion, Michel said.
“They were lovely angels,” she said of the doomed kids.
The family hopes the tragedy will discourage people from drinking and driving, she said.