By BILL JONES

Staff Writer

Two people were injured shortly before 3 p.m. on Thursday in a collision between a compact car and the tractor portion of a tractor-trailer rig on the Baileyton Road. The crash occurred between Robert Harmon Road and Doty's Chapel Road.

Witnesses at the scene said a woman who was the only occupant of a compact Chevrolet Cavalier involved in the collision was trapped in the wreckage of the car. The Chevrolet bore a Hawkins County license plate

The driver of the truck, who was injured but not trapped in his vehicle, was transported to a Greeneville hospital by a Greene County-Greeneville Emergency Medical Services ambulance, witnesses at the scene said.

A Wings Air Rescue helicopter was dispatched to the location to transport the driver of the car once she was freed from the wreckage by volunteers from the Greeneville Emergency & Rescue Squad.

The Wings Air Rescue crew worked with local EMS personnel to treat the injured woman at the scene, witnesses said.

Also responding to the scene were units of the Tusculum Volunteer Fire Department.

The collision blocked traffic in both directions on the Baileyton Road.