Heidi L. Harrall pleads not guilty in Washington County Superior Court yesterday. At right is her lawyer, Robert Mann.

The Providence Journal / Bill Murphy

SOUTH KINGSTOWN — Heidi L. Harrall, 45, yesterday pleaded not guilty in Superior Court to two felony driving charges and admitted to a District Court judge that she was a probation violator.

Superior Court Judge Stephen P. Nugent heard that Harrall had been discharged Friday from substance-abuse treatment and told her to return in two weeks to show she is participating in continued outpatient treatment. Pretrial conferences are to start May 5. He allowed the $10,000 cash bail she posted in District Court last year to be transferred to Superior Court.

Harrall was indicted by a Washington County grand jury March 14 on two felony counts, one of driving under the influence, serious bodily injury resulting and one of driving to endanger, personal injury resulting. The car she was driving crossed Route 1 near the Charlestown line on June 23, 2007, and allegedly struck Sylvia M. Bogusz, then 17, who had pulled over with a flat tire, activated her emergency flashers and was waiting on the grassy shoulder for her mother, who was five minutes away, to pick her up.

Police said Harrall’s 1994 Audi was going 90 mph when it struck Bogusz, who was thrown 100 feet into a Route 1 travel lane. Bogusz suffered broken bones in her pelvis, vertebrae and right arm and leg, as well as a head injury.

Her mother, Grazyna Chylinska, was first to arrive after the crash and found her daughter on the pavement.

Bogusz, now 18, has been in a hospital or rehabilitation center from June 23 to Wednesday, when she returned home. She is most recently recovering from surgery to close an ileostomy, an opening in her abdominal wall that was made to bypass her colon.

The honors student who had just graduated from South Kingstown High School was unable to speak for four months and has only since January begun to walk with assistance after months of physical therapy, which is continuing.

Chylinska sat with a friend yesterday to witness the arraignment from the courtroom’s front row. She said later only that “We waited nine months,” and “All we want is for the community to come together and pray” for her daughter’s recovery. She said her daughter is still in a great deal of pain.

In District Court, defense lawyer Robert B. Mann told Judge William C. Clifton that Harrall had attended an intensive Butler Hospital program that ended Friday. She was told to follow up with a doctor and enter another outpatient counseling program.

Clifton said he would put her on the review calendar if she admitted to being a probation violator, which she did. (Phoenix House had reported her failure to attend counseling for a month.)

A date of May 28 was set in District Court to review her compliance with the counseling condition of her probation. That condition was imposed on a 2006 misdemeanor charge of vandalism, to which Harrall pleaded no contest. She has paid restitution and court costs.

dnaylor@projo.com