Peggy Lynn Binns received severe head injuries in an accident involving a truck, a car and two cycles, a Coroner's jury heard yesterday.

Miss Binns, 33, a waitress at the Pink Beach Club, was in critical condition for one month before she died on August 18, 1995. The accident took place on a bend on Harrington Sound Road.

It appeared that the rider of a Yamaha motorcycle travelling east tried to overtake a truck and collided head-on with a car going in the opposite direction.

The bike then rebounded into the westbound lane and collided with Miss Binns who was also riding a motorcycle.

Director of the Emergency Room at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, Dr.

Edward Schultz said Miss Binns had a large laceration to her head that exposed part of her brain.

Her right wrist was damaged and her pupils were dilated. She was also unresponsive to pain.

Testimony from other doctors revealed that Miss Binns' skull was severely fractured, her brain was depressed and there was a bruise around her heart.

Her right elbow and wrist were also broken.

Miss Binns also went into cardiac arrest but her heart was restarted after cardio-pulmonary resuscitation.

It was later determined that had she lived, Miss Binns would have remained in a permanently "vegetative state''.

Former consultant pathologist at the hospital, Dr. John Winwick, said that Miss Binns died as a result of the injuries her brain received because of her open skull.

Linda Burns, one of many witnesses, told the court that she was the first to arrive at the scene moments after the crash.

Realising that two people were severely injured, she said she attempted to talk to Miss Binns and the other rider Calvert Smith.

At the time, she said Smith opened his eyes while Miss Binns was making "a loud noise''.

Miss Burns also said Miss Binns was tangled in her bike that was against the wall while she thought Smith's leg was also caught under her bike.

Meanwhile, Ruby Ann Gibbs, driver of the car that was involved in the accident, said she was travelling east on Harrington Sound Road.

As she rounded the bend she said she saw a truck speeding west on the wrong side of the road.

When she swerved to miss the truck, she said she saw the bright light of a motorcycle that apparently was trying to pass the truck.

The inquest continues this morning before Coroner Arthur Hodgson and a jury of seven people.

Calvert Smith is represented by lawyer John Cooper. Richard Horseman appears for the Binns family. Sgt. Donald Grant is the coroner's officer.