That is what the woman's daughter said when she gave evidence in the ACT Supreme Court on Wednesday, as the trial of Salvatore David Incandela entered its third day.

Mr Incandela, 41, is accused of raping the woman in November 2020 after offering her a lift home from a friend's house and stopping his car on the dirt track, in Spence, en route to her place.

He denies the allegation and has pleaded not guilty to a charge of sexual intercourse without consent.

The alleged victim's daughter told the court on Wednesday that, on the day in question, she had received a phone call from her mother.

Her mother was with a man she had met on the dating website Zoosk, and was upset because "it wasn't working out" with him.

The daughter said her mother had indicated one of the man's friends was going to drive her home.

The witness told the court that when her mother arrived home later that day, "I instantly knew something had happened".

"Her hair was a mess," the woman's daughter said.

"She looked completely out of it. She just wanted to lay down and that's when I just instantly thought, 'Something's gone on here'."

The witness said she and her mother had subsequently gone to get something to eat, and that she had needed to hold the alleged victim by the shirt "basically the whole way" to stop her falling over.

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When defence barrister Travis Jackson played CCTV footage from a shopping centre, however, the alleged victim's daughter conceded she could be seen walking ahead and not holding her mother's clothes.

"But you can see she can't walk straight," the witness said, later adding that the footage did not show a point at which her mother had fallen over in a supermarket aisle.

She said her mother had told her the following day about the alleged rape, prompting trips to a hospital and a police station.

Mr Incandela's trial also heard on Wednesday from some people who lived near the dirt track in Spence.

One man told the court he was taking washing off his clothesline on the afternoon in question when he looked over his fence and saw a car on the track.

"There was a man standing at the [car] door and he was thrusting away," this witness said.

"I thought, 'Oh, that's a bit rich for this time of the day'."

The man the alleged victim had met through Zoosk gave evidence on Wednesday as well, telling the court the woman had several drinks at his place and he believed she was "pretty intoxicated" by the time she accepted a lift home from Mr Incandela.

He said Mr Incandela had later told him the woman "couldn't wait" to engage in sexual activity, prompting him to phone the alleged victim.

The man told the court that when he asked the woman about what Mr Incandela had said, she replied: "It was just one of those things that happened."

Crown prosecutor Trent Hickey suggested the alleged victim had in fact told him Mr Incandela "took advantage of" her.

The man denied this, replying: "Not at all."

The trial continues.

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