PORTLAND – The passenger in the speedboat that crashed into a small boat on Long Lake in Harrison last year, killing its two occupants, said Wednesday she blacked out on impact.

Nicole Randall, 20, of Phippsburg – who lived in Harrison at the time of the accident – testified for more than an hour in Cumberland County Superior Court on the second day of testimony in the double manslaughter trial of Robert LaPointe, Jr., 39, of Medway, Mass., and Bridgton.

A tearful Randall said she was aboard LaPointe’s 32-foot cigarette boat the night of Aug. 11, 2007, when it cut in half a 14-foot outboard motorboat. Randall said she saw the smaller boat approach LaPointe’s boat around 9 p.m. and pass it on the right “going fast.”

She told LaPointe the smaller boat didn’t display its lights. The night was dark.

“The … idiot’s out there with no lights on,” she heard him say in a loud tone.

A couple of minutes later, LaPointe throttled up his boat, which was equipped with twin 435-horsepower engines.

His lights were turned on, Randall said.

His boat accelerated to the point where it was skimming along the top of the water, she said. She estimated their speed to be around 35 mph. A few minutes later, as she was seated in the boat, she felt the impact with the other boat.

“It was more like hitting a rock or something,” she said.

The next thing she remembered was waking up in the water. She saw another body in the water, called out and swam toward it, then recognized LaPointe’s voice.

She was hurt, she said.

“I knew there was something wrong with my (left) arm,” she said. “It didn’t move.”

Still, she and LaPointe managed to swim about four-tenths of a mile to shore, encouraging each other along the way. They climbed up a ladder onto a dock on the east side of the lake at Bear Point. Later, at Bridgton Hospital, she would learn she had broken her elbow.

In the water, she said she couldn’t see LaPointe’s boat, but she could hear it.

She choked back tears several times as she testified.

She told Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Norbert that she had seen LaPointe drink two beers that night after he picked her up at her parents’ lakeside home in his boat at about 8 p.m. LaPointe had tied his boat to her parents’ pontoon boat in the lake where they socialized after he picked her up and before the crash. LaPointe had been sitting behind her on the pontoon boat and she hadn’t been looking at him, she said.

Prosecutors said Tuesday that LaPointe had a blood-alcohol content over the legal driving limit from a blood sample that was tested later at a state lab. Norbert said LaPointe had been drinking all day, took a break, then had six more beers. She also said LaPointe repeatedly told others his boat had been traveling at 45 mph when the collision occurred.

LaPointe was a friend of Randall’s family, she said. He kept his boat in a slip at their marina and stored it there off-season.

George Hassett, a defense attorney, cross-examined the state’s witnesses, seeking to show LaPointe wasn’t impaired in his ability to operate a boat.

Cumberland County Sheriff’s Deputy Jennifer Gage, who arrived at the scene where LaPointe’s boat had come ashore and rested about 130 feet into the woods, said she hadn’t detected anything in LaPointe’s gait that would have led her to think he was intoxicated. She did notice the odor of alcohol on his breath, she said.

A witness, Susan Barton, testified earlier in the day that she had been settling down to watch a movie with her mother and sister at her parents’ house on Bear Point when she heard a boat’s engines going fast and close to their home. Then the boat hit something.

“It was just the loudest sound I’ve heard in my life,’ Barton said. “It sounded like a plane crashing.”

The boat had hit their beach and was wedged between trees behind her parents’ house, the witness said.

She found the boat with its engines running, but was afraid to go near it.

As she was leaving, a neighbor and a rescue worker approached. She held a flashlight as the other two turned off the engines.

Barton met LaPointe and Randall at the dock as they swam ashore. LaPointe said a boat had hit them and didn’t have any lights on.

LaPointe is charged with two counts of manslaughter, two counts of aggravated driving under the influence and one count of reckless conduct with a dangerous weapon.

The trial is expected to last about two weeks.