POLICE feared they were going to be rammed by a dangerous BMW driver in a narrow lane, a court has been told.

Lucy Turner admitted dangerous driving, driving without insurance, and using threatening and abusive words or behaviour when she appeared before magistrates in Hereford.

Turner had been seen behind the wheel of a BMW 420 by a PCSO in Bromyard on April 22, prosecutor Shafquat Reaz said.

The officer had spoken to her about the car's insurance, but Turner refused to stop the vehicle, swearing in front of the PCSO and saying: "I'm not afraid of those piggy *******."

She drove away, but later came up against police travelling in the opposite direction in a narrow lane near Bromyard, prosecutor Shafquat Reaz said.

The two officers in the car said they saw her driving at speed towards them along the narrow, single track lane and were forced to reverse some 100 metres to a wider spot at speed to avoid being rammed by her.

Speaking on her own behalf, the 23-year-old said she had gone into self-destruct mode after catching her partner cheating.

"The car was hers and that's a reason why I was possessive over it," she said.

"I have high functioning autism, which makes me possessive of things. It was like the last thing I had to hang on to to her, so I was going to protect that at all costs.

"I never think through the consequences, and I was in self-destruct mode, which probably didn't help."

Turner, of Kyre, Tenbury Wells, was handed an interim driving ban while a pre-sentence report id carried out and will appear for sentencing later this month.