The chairwoman of a north-east community council has denied driving dangerously and ploughing into two pedestrians.
Hilda Lumsden-Gill appeared at Aberdeen Sheriff Court yesterday accused of losing control of her green Jaguar X-Type in Huntly’s Bogie Street.
It is alleged she drove her car into a parked red Ford Ranger pick-up truck before mounting the pavement and hitting Pauline Thomson, throwing her on to the bonnet of the car.
Lumsden-Gill, who is chairwoman of Huntly Community Council, is accused of continuing to drive Mrs Thomson still on the bonnet.
And it is alleged that when the pedestrian fell off she then knocked down Georgina Couper, who was standing at the side of the road.
Court papers state that by driving in a dangerous manner Lumsden-Gill, 58, of Craigdhu, 2 Lennox Terrace, Huntly, caused the three collisions leaving both Mrs Thomson and Ms Couper seriously injured.
She denied the charge against her and will go on trial before a jury in March.
Pauline Thomson had to be airlifted to hospital with a fractured skull and bleeding on the brain after the accident just yards from her home in Huntly.
Six months after the incident, she revealed she was still struggling to get back to full health.
The mother-of-four said she had popped out for a message when the accident happened.
She was airlifted to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and spent two weeks in hospital.
But Mrs Thomson said she was still undergoing various scans months later and claimed she suffered from dizziness and headaches every day.
The 33-year-old also said she had been left with speech problems, memory loss and mood swings – which she said could be so bad she sometimes she had to escape to her bed to get away from everyday irritants, such as noise.
Mrs Thomson said doctors wanted her to stay off work for a year, but she went back to her job at Asda after three months as she said she was scared she would forget what to do.
As well as her ongoing health problems, Mrs Thomson said the accident had left her frightened when she goes out, and it took her weeks to be able to walk down the road where the collision happened.