Gai Vieira remains in coma 10 weeks after crash involving police car

A woman whose car was hit by a highway patrol vehicle in Sydney's south remains in a coma almost 10 weeks after the incident.

Senior Constable Harry Thomas Little, 40, has been charged with dangerous driving occasioning grievous bodily harm after an on-duty collision, injuring Gai Vieira, on The Kingsway in Cronulla on September 5.

Mr Little was allegedly driving at a dangerous speed when his NSW Police Ford Falcon XR6 hit Ms Vieira's Mercedes at the Kingsway and Connels Road intersection, according to court documents.

Ms Vieira, then 68, was taken to St George Hospital in a critical condition.

Police say a young boy, who was a passenger in the Mercedes, escaped injury.

Outside Sydney's Downing Centre Local Court on Monday, racing horse owner Bert Vieira told reporters his wife remains in hospital in a coma and has shown "very slight signs" of improvement including blinking and swallowing.

"We grab at anything - a blink of an eye, a swallow, we grab at anything we can," Mr Vieira said.

"They (the doctors) say it will take a long time, a miracle."

Mr Little, who didn't face court, has been excused from appearing when the matter is next heard on February 5, 2019.

Outside court, his solicitor Warwick Anderson said the police officer is doing "as well as can be expected", adding that "it's a very difficult time for him and his family".

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