She flew eight feet in the air and landed on her face when the car hit her, said Barb Scarantino, a witness and registered nurse who tended to the woman before paramedics arrived.

The woman’s front teeth and one of her legs seemed to be broken, Scarantino said. She seemed conscious and mentally stable when Scarantino was speaking with her.

An EMT also helped the woman for about 15 minutes until paramedics arrived. They kept her head still to prevent damage in case of a spinal cord injury, Scarantino said.

“It’s always a smidge unnerving, but you go right into your mode and you do what you have to do,” Scarantino said. “It’s not the first scene of an accident that I’ve come onto.”

The state of the woman’s health is unknown, although she might have suffered severe injuries, Scarantino said.

“I just am grateful for her that me and the EMT were there,” she said.

The woman crossed without checking for oncoming traffic and was not at a crosswalk, East Lansing police Officer Todd Quick said.

She had just exited a bus and did not wait for the bus to move before attempting to cross the street, Scarantino — who also was on the bus during the incident ­— said.

The driver, Anthony Tuttila, did not see her crossing and hit his brakes as he collided with her, he said.

Tuttila was driving under the speed limit when he struck the woman, he said.

Although the pedestrian is at fault, she will not receive a ticket for crossing, Quick said.

“I’m not going to write her any tickets — she just got hit by a car,” Quick said.

The front of Tuttila’s Nissan Murano was dented from the collision, although to him, that didn’t matter.

“I don’t really care about the damage,” he said. “It doesn’t feel right when you hurt another person.”