By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer
Two volunteer firefighters and two women suffered minor injuries when a Slackwood Fire Co. fire engine and a car driven by one of the women were involved in a collision on Brunswick Pike at Texas Avenue around 2 p.m. Feb. 22, according to police Lt. Charles B. Edgar.
Volunteer firefighter Timothy Megargle, who was driving the fire engine, suffered arm and shoulder injuries and Slackwood Deputy Fire Chief Martin Sudol suffered a cut to the head in the accident. Firefighters Ken Kandrac and Kishan D. Sitapara were uninjured. All four were taken to Capital Health System’s Hopewell Township hospital.
The driver of a Kia Spectra, Margaret A. Dixon, and her passenger, Renee Portee, complained of pain and were taken to Capital Health Regional Medical Center in Trenton. The two women live in the Brookshire age-restricted development off Darrah Lane.
The firefighters were on their way to a mulch fire at the Dollar General store on Brunswick Pike at Whitehead Road, Lt. Edgar said. But the initial dispatch from Mercer County Central Communications sent the firefighters to the Dollar Tree store on Brunswick Pike at Texas Avenue.
When the firefighters were given a corrected address Brunswick Pike at Whitehead Road the driver of the fire engine attempted to make a U-turn from Brunswick Pike north to Brunswick Pike south at the intersection of Brunswick Pike and Texas Avenue, Lt. Edgar said.
The fire engine was traveling in the right lane, with its lights and siren on, when it attempted to make the U-turn, Lt. Edgar said. The car occupied by the two women was traveling in the left lane on Brunswick Pike, and struck the driver’s side of the fire engine as the fire engine attempted to make the U-turn.
No charges have been filed against either driver, Lt. Edgar said.

