By BILL JONES

Staff Writer

Greeneville police say one of the vehicles involved in a Monday morning traffic accident on West Church Street was later reported as having been stolen.

A report filed by GPD Officer Jeff Craft said the 6:22 a.m. two-vehicle crash occurred at the intersection of West Church Street and Holt Court.

The polcie report said the collision took place when a 1999 Chevrolet Monte Carlo driven by Gary Lee Ranney, 20, of Kingsley Ave., which was traveling west on Church Street at a high rate of speed, skidded out of control.

Ranney's vehicle reportedly crossed the center line of the road and struck the left side of a 2004 Chevrolet Impala driven by Lynda Kay Blazer, 60, of Elmer Hayes Road, Mosheim, shortly after Blazer pulled from Holt Court.

Ranney was injured in the collision and was taken by a Greene County-Greeneville Emergency Medical Services ambulance to Laughlin Memorial Hospital.

Blazer was also injured, but did not require transportation to a hospital, according to the report.

Blazer's passenger Melinda Weems, 50, of Summer Haven Drive, Midway, also was injured, but did not require transportation to a hospital, according to the police report.

Ranney was charged with driving while without a driver license.

Vehicle Reported Stolen

A second police report filed by GPD Officer Eddie Short said the Chevrolet Monte Carlo that Ranney was driving at the time of the Monday morning crash was reported stolen about 9:50 a.m. from T&T Transmission on Jefferson Street.

Officer Short's report said, in addition to taking the car, someone had stolen the batteries from 10 vehicles parked at the business awaiting repairs.

As of this morning, Ranney had not been charged in connection with the theft of the car he was driving at the time of the Monday morning accident.

Bond for Ranney on the driving while unlicensed charge was set at $1,000. He was scheduled to appear in General Sessions Court on April 30.