An elderly Mosheim man was fatally injured about 3:45 p.m. Tuesday when he pulled his car into the path of a pickup truck on U.S. 11E at its intersection with Spring Street in Mosheim.

Eldridge Massey, 90, of Beverly Hills Drive, Mosheim, died at the Johnson City Medical Center where he had been flown after being removed from the wreckage of his car, according to Trooper Paul Kilday, who investigated the accident for the Tennessee Highway patrol.

Massey, the trooper said, had been driving a 1993 Buick Century sedan north on U.S. 11E and was attempting to turn left across the southbound traffic lanes of the four-lane highway to reach Spring Street when he pulled into the path of a southbound 1994 Ford Ranger pickup driven by Danny Ray Miller, 47, of Williamson Road, Chuckey.

Miller, who was on his way to work at the Walmart Distribution Center in Midway, also was injured, according to Trooper Kilday.

Miller was taken by a Greene County-Greeneville Emergency Medical Services ambulance to Laughlin Memorial Hospital, where he was treated and released.

Trooper Kilday said witnesses told him that Massey had stopped his sedan in a median cross-over point but suddenly pulled forward into the path of Miller's pickup truck.

The truck struck Massey's sedan in its passenger side and pushed it over a stop sign at the intersection of Spring Street and U.S. 11E, Trooper Kilday said.

Massey had been unconscious when emergency personnel arrived from the Town of Mosheim Fire Department, Greene County-Greeneville Emergency Medical Services and the Greeneville Emergency & Rescue Squad.

After being removed from his heavily damaged vehicle, Massey was treated at the scene by EMS personnel before being placed in a Wings Air Rescue helicopter and flown to the Johnson City Medical Center, Trooper Kilday said.

The accident halted traffic in both directions on U.S. 11E for a short time while rescue operations were in progress, according to the trooper.

Also responding to the accident scene were Greene County sheriff's deputies.