Still image from video of drunk driver crash (MLPD)
Still image from video of drunk driver crash (MLPD)
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A driver captured this cellphone video of a drunk motorist in Moses Lake, including them losing control of their car and smashing through a fence at high speed.

 A Drunk driver flees the scene of the crash

Sunday evening Moses Lake Police were called to the 700 block of North Rockport Street, for a report of a car that had plowed through a fence, into a yard, coming to stop after causing damage.

The MLPD said the driver, identified as 18-year-old Quentin Quade was driving on Valley Road when he lost control and crashed. A motorist behind him noticed Quade was swerving around on the road, and recorded this video. It shows Quade losing control and seemingly not hitting the brakes as he plowed through a fence.

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Fortunately, he did not hit any oncoming traffic. Moses Lake officers said he fled the scene on foot but was later located, and using a warrant he was taken to a nearby hospital for a DUI blood draw.  He is likely facing DUI and Hit and Run charges.

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