The 54-year-old pharmacist will be sentenced in Tamworth District Court early next year after she pleaded guilty to aggravated dangerous driving occasioning grievous bodily harm.

A statement of agreed facts included photos of the crash scene and what happened when Anderson turned into the path of an oncoming car about 300m from her East Tamworth home on the afternoon of April 1.

A senior constable in the highway patrol squad witnessed the crash at the intersection of Upper and White streets about 2pm, and captured it on the in-car camera.

The facts show Anderson failed to give way as she turned her Volkswagen Tiguan right off White Street, "directly" into the path of a 57-year-old woman travelling the other way in a Ford Focus.

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The officer stopped and checked on the two drivers before calling for ambulance and police support.

He claimed Anderson told him she was "fine". The other driver was found conscious but unresponsive.

Anderson got out of the car and the officer noticed she was "unsteady" on her feet. She told him she hadn't seen the other driver coming.

When he asked at the scene if she'd had anything to drink, Anderson said "no" and that she'd been "at work".

She was arrested after a positive roadside test and recorded a blood alcohol reading of 0.250 at the police station, five times the legal limit.

Days later, Anderson told police she had checked her rearview mirror before making the right-hand turn, and next thing she knew the airbags were going off.

The victim was taken to Tamworth hospital and underwent surgery for a broken arm.

The agreed facts indicate that almost four months after the crash, she had not been able to go back to work, took painkillers daily and suffered "constant pain" in her arm.

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