Gai Vieira back in her Cronulla home two years after crash involving police car

Tomorrow is the second anniversary of the collision between Mrs Vieira's Mercedes and the police car as she turned right from Connels Road into Kingsway, Cronulla on September 5, 2018.

After more than a year in a private rehabilitation centre, Royal Rehab at Ryde, Mrs Vieira, 70, returned to live in her Cronulla home three weeks ago.

Her husband Bert said the staff at Royal Rehab had been "very good, but we can do a lot more for her here".

"We have arranged 24-7 care, and there are two carers here every hour of the day.

"She is still in a wheelchair but, since coming home, she has improved a lot more.

"She is talking, she knows everyone's name, she knows everything that happened.

"But, she is still not moving her tongue properly to sound everything out."

Mr Vieira said most of the costs were being met by the state government's insurance arm, icare.

In 2019, Senior Constable Harry Thomas Little, 40, pleaded not guilty to dangerous driving occasioning grievous bodily harm.

The case was due to be heard in court in March this year but was postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic and is scheduled for March 2021.