About eight people escaped serious injury Monday after a Dodge truck trying to turn from Chappell Drive onto Holland Road struck a Chevy SUV heading out of Suffolk, a witness said.

Aneshia Johnson, 25, said she was eastbound toward Suffolk on Holland Road when the Dodge seemed to turn into the westbound Chevy’s path just before 11:15 a.m.

The Dodge truck “seemed like he was trying to come out of the intersection at the same time, and flipped that (SUV) on its side,” Johnson said.

She said she saw six young men climb out of the Chevy, which ended on its side across the eastbound lanes. “They all jumped out; they seemed OK,” she said.

“As soon as it happened, I got out of the car and went over to see that they were OK. They started jumping out one-by-one. One guy had scratches; one guy had sunglasses on and he was bleeding (on the side of his face) because he was on the side the (Chevy) flipped onto.”

The Chevy was towing a U-Haul box trailer. Johnson said she overhead one of the occupants say they were headed for Florida.

“Several injured parties” were transported via ambulance to Sentara Obici Hospital, the city said in a news release, adding all injuries were reported as minor.

Eastbound lanes were closed for about an hour as the vehicles and debris were removed from the road, the city said, adding the cause of the accident was under investigation.

At the scene a few minutes before noon, an older man watching the cleanup, leaning against a parked vehicle with an older woman, said he was involved in the accident. The man was visibly shaken, and the woman said they would prefer not to answer questions.

Johnson said she was a nurse but had no medical supplies in her car. She said she called emergency services after checking to see all victims were conscious and alert.

“They had a very lucky escape,” she said of the young men in the Chevy.