A former high flyer who now struggles to hold down a job after suffering brain damage in a road crash is suing the driver she blames for the accident.

Ann Rooney, 36, now of New York, was vice-president of fibre optic company Nynex's Bermuda branch when she suffered a head-on collision with a vehicle driven by lawyer Dennis DeFrias in Trimingham Road on April 19, 1995.

Her lawyer Kieron Unwin said she suffered concentration losses and has suffered from depression after the accident.

The plaintiff alleged that Mr. DeFrias, an attorney with Mello, Jones and Martin, was in the wrong lane overtaking when he collided with Ms Rooney.

Yesterday she limped to the witnesses box of the Supreme Court but testified that she remembered nothing of the accident.

Earlier, driver Ivan Trott told the court that he had seen Ms. Rooney's bike wobble when she saw Mr. DeFrias's vehicle cross the centre line as the two drew closer.

Mr. Trott said: "When she started to wobble she was on her side completely.'' Mr. DeFrias's lawyer John Cooper suggested there was some distance between the approaching vehicles.

But Mr. Trott said the distance was short and he denied Mr. Cooper's suggestions that he was reconstructing evidence he had given to the Police.

Mr. Trott said he had slowed right down as there was something further down the road slowing traffic.

He said he drifted slightly into the centre to see if there was room to overtake and was able to see the accident from that vantage point.

Asked if Ms Rooney had panicked he said: "If you were in a collision course would you not panic? I saw it wobble.'' Mr. DeFrias, 28, who at the time of the accident was living at Mission Crescent, Paget, is expected to give his evidence today.