A woman who witnesses say was talking on a cell phone drove her car into another car and flipped multiple times on Southwest 13th Street Tuesday afternoon.
Neither of the drivers reported serious injuries and there were no passengers in either car.
According to reports from police and witnesses, a woman driving a red Toyota RAV4 ran a red light while traveling south on Southwest 13th Street.
"(She was) driving quick, very fast," Ofc. Martin Honeycutt of the Gainesville Police Department said.
The woman's car struck the front bumper of a blue 2009 Nissan Sentra turning from Archer Road onto Southwest 13th Street. The red car then rolled over about three times, Honeycutt said.
"The light turned green and I went," said Toynetta Jones, the driver of the car that was struck. "I heard horns blowing. I tried to stop and I got hit."
Jones said she had owned her car for less than a month.
Witnesses said the woman in the car that flipped was talking on a cell phone at the time of the accident, which happened around 4 p.m.
"She went up pretty high when she flipped,"
said Tyler Crockett, who witnessed the crash. "I can't believe she's not dead."
Honeycutt said the airbags and seatbelt saved the woman's life.
"She would've been dead otherwise, I'm certain," he said.
Crockett said he ran to help the woman after witnessing the crash.
"When I ran over there she was crawling out of the back of the car," he said. "She looked like she had blood all over her arm."
Jones said she also ran to the flipped car to see if she could help. A nurse at Gainesville Health Care Center, she said the woman was bleeding from a cut on her hand.
"The injuries were minor," Honeycutt said.
The driver of the flipped car sat in the back of a GPD patrol car as the cars were cleared from the road. Police declined to identify her.
