A volunteer firefighter and the driver of another vehicle were injured in a head-on collision in the 5900 block of the Kingsport Highway about 3 p.m. on Sunday.

Trooper Eric Wise, who investigated the accident, said it involved a southbound 2002 Mazda Millennia sedan driven by Tammy Wilds, 41, of Justice Road, Afton, and a northbound 1991 Nissan Maxima driven by Marvin Mullet, 29, whose address on his driver license was shown as on Asheville Highway.

Mullet, according to Jonathan Williams, chief of the Newmansville Volunteer Fire Department, is a firefighter with the Tusculum Volunteer Fire Department and an employee of Malone's Wrecker Service.

Williams said Mullet was not responding to the crash of the light airplane on Justice Road at the time of the traffic accident.

The initial investigation showed that the Wilds vehicle was apparently on the wrong side of the road at the time of the head-on collision, Trooper Wise said.

Both drivers were injured, according to Trooper Wise, who said Mullet was trapped in the wreckage of his car for about 30 minutes until he was freed by volunteers from the Greeneville Emergency & Rescue Squad.

Mullet was flown from the scene by a Wings Air Rescue helicopter to the Johnson City Medical Center, while Wilds was taken by a Greene County-Greeneville Emergency Medical Services ambulance to the Johnson City Medical Center.

Mullet was listed in satisfactory condition there this morning, according to a nursing supervisor.

Two juvenile passengers in Mullet's vehicle apparently escaped injury, the trooper said.

However, both were expected to be taken by their families to be checked out either at local hospitals or by their personal physicians, according to the investigating trooper.

Traffic was blocked in both directions on Kingsport Highway for a time following the head-on collision.

Also responding to the accident were units of the Greene County Sheriff's Department, the Newmansville VFD and the Greeneville Emergency & Rescue Squad.