Teen driver arrested for DWI after crashing into Shipley Do-Nuts building in College Station

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) – A teenage driver was arrested overnight in College Station on DWI charges after crashing into a building, according to a police report.

According to a witness who spoke with police, the driver, Trenton Hurst, was on Greens Prairie Road when he struck the median and left the roadway, went through landscaping in a parking lot, skidded the side of the Shipley Do-Nuts building and stopped near the gas pumps of the 7Eleven store at the corner of Arrington Road.

Surveillance video that Shipley Do-Nuts shared with KBTX shows the car entering the parking lot at a high rate of speed and then crashing into the building near the drive-thru window. Police said all tires were torn off and multiple airbags were deployed in the crash.

Hurst, 19, of Franklin, was arrested on a DWI charge.

He told police he was at a party and drank 7 beers and 3 shots earlier in the evening and was still the driver of the group of 5 people in the car. This is Hurst’s third arrest in three months for alcohol-related offenses, according to online jail records in Brazos County. He was arrested in September on charges of underage possession of alcohol, and last month he was arrested on charges of public intoxication.

One of the passengers, 19-year-old Larry Eaton of Bryan, was arrested for tampering with evidence after witnesses saw him throw alcohol bottles from the car into the gas station trash can. Eaton told police he did it because he was “looking out for his friend.”

Although the vehicle was totaled, none of the occupants were seriously injured, police said.

A manager at Shipley Do-Nuts said there was only damage to the exterior of the building and the business continued normal operations Sunday morning.

Click on the video player above to watch the crash.

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