Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi in Car Accident

LOS ANGELES, LA -- Ellen DeGeneres and her lover Portia de Rossi narrowly escaped serious injury in a car crash in Los Angeles on Friday afternoon.

The couple sustained some neck and back injuries when their car was hit by another car in a traffic light on Sunset Boulevard.

The driver of the other car, who escaped with minor cuts to her leg, was later arrested on suspicion of drink-driving.

Meanwhile, Ellen is about to kick off the fourth season of her talk show "The Ellen DeGeneres Show." In an interview with AP, Ellen reveals that they are changing the format of the show by putting less emphasize on celebrities and "more on human interest and real people and things like that."

She also reveals that being on a daily talk show is hard and takes a lot of work: "It's just the hardest thing I've ever done and it's the best thing that I've ever done. I love this job. I love coming here every day. The whole show is me so I make every decision. It's just constant decisions, constant writing the monologue every day and working on what's going to make it special every single day.

"Then it's time to do the show itself and I have to be completely present and completely on my toes to be impulsive and spontaneous. It's just a lot of energy. I get home at the end of the day and I don't want to talk. All I want to do is lie on the floor and pet my dogs and my cats."