The cars ended up stopped next to each other on the lawn at the corner of 34th Street and 20th Avenue near the Sherwin-Williams Paint Store.

A man and woman from Rockledge were killed and a Gainesville man was injured in a traffic crash Monday morning at Southwest 34th Street and 20th Avenue.



The driver of a blue Honda, Carol M. Ohern, 75, and her passenger, Eugene Ohern, 73, were killed, according to Gainesville Police Department spokesman Officer Ben Tobias.



The crash was reported at 9:52 a.m.



Gabrelle Alexander Gibson, 25, had been driving a black Hyundai south on 34th Street approaching 20th Avenue when the Honda, which was coming from the other direction, tried to make a U-turn, Tobias said.



The Hyundai struck the Honda and the cars ended up next to each other on the lawn at the corner of 34th Street and 20th Avenue near the Sherwin-Williams paint store. The two people in the Honda were pronounced dead at the scene, Tobias said, and Gibson was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.



Pieces of paper blew away from the crash site and shattered glass sprinkled the road as officers worked.



They closed 34th Street at Hull Road for about three hours. Cars on Southwest 20th Avenue were redirected through the Winn-Dixie shopping plaza.