Cops: Father, 2 Children Killed After Being Rear-Ended by Drunk Driver

A Queens man and his two children were killed in a fiery crash on the Southern State Parkway in Bay Shore early Sunday after their car was rear-ended by a drunk driver who fled the scene, State Police said.

According to police, Ancio Ostane, of St. Albans, was driving a 2005 Toyota westbound on the Southern State just west of Exit 41–Bay Shore Road–when the vehicle was struck from behind by a 2008 BMW at about 1:30 a.m.

The impact of the crash caused the Toyota to become engulfed in flames, police said. Ancio Ostane and his two children, 8-year-old Andy and 4-year-old Sephora, were pronounced dead at the scene. Ostane’s wife, Lucnie Bouaz-Ostane, was able to escape from the burning vehicle and was treated and released from Southside Hospital.

The driver of the BMW, O’Neil Sharpe, of Springfield Gardens, Queens, fled the scene, but was arrested soon after the crash at a residence in Rockville Centre, where the registered owner of the BMW lives, police said.

Sharpe is charged with DWI and leaving the scene of an accident.

The Ostanes were on their way home from a family party in Central Islip at the time of the crash, police said.

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