Authorities and Alachua County Fire Rescue responded to two accidents — one outside Library West and the other on Stadium Road — throughout Monday.
At about 10:30 a.m., a UF student drove her scooter down West University Avenue and crashed into a turning car, said Gainesville Police spokesman Officer Ben Tobias.
She tried to cross an intersection when a bus blocked the view of a driver, who then turned left on University Avenue and crossed the scooter’s path, Tobias said.
The scooter driver was taken to UF Health Shands Hospital to be treated for non-life-threatening injuries, Tobias said.
About two hours later, a UF student rode his bicycle west down Stadium Road and hit another student crossing the road, the bicyclist said.
The woman walked across the road with a group of people from whom she broke away before the bicyclist clenched his brakes and hit the woman with his handlebars, the bicyclist said.
He said the woman scraped her hands and hit her head on the road, but she was not taken to the hospital.
“She didn’t see the bicycle and the bicyclist didn’t see her,” said University Police spokesman Maj. Brad Barber. The student said he spoke with police and left without a citation.
“The dangers of riding your bike at UF, man,” the bicyclist said. “People literally everywhere.”
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University of Florida Police officers speak to the victim of a bicycle accident on Stadium Road on Monday afternoon. Two hours earlier, a car and a scooter collided on University Avenue.
