Radio 2 DJ Jeremy Vine today told how he was scared and feared for his safety as he was confronted by a furious female driver as he cycled home from work.

Shanique Syrena Pearson, 22, threatened to knock out Mr Vine in an abusive and foul mouthed rant as the pair clashed in the street, a court heard.

Pearson was caught on Mr Vine's helmet camera getting out of her car and screaming at the TV presenter.

He claimed that Pearson, who admitted not having any tax on the car, made a gun gesture at him with her fingers, but her defence claimed he was lying in a bid to racially stereotype her.

Mr Vine uploaded the footage of the incident in Kensington in August last year to YouTube and it has been viewed by millions.

He told Hammersmith Magistrates: "I could tell she was upset and my main aim was to try and calm her down and explain why I was cycling in front of her.

"I realise I don't want to make any judgement of her but I believed I was dealing with a violent person.

"When someone walked up towards you like that purposefully, they're furious and they are getting into your space.

"The next thing that is going to happen you are going to get hit. I was quite scared about what was going to happen."

Pearson denies one charge of driving without reasonable consideration to other road users and one charge of using threatening and abusive or insulting words or behaviour.

Today she pleaded guilty to one charge of driving an unlicensed vehicle.

The court was shown the footage in which Pearson's black Vauxhall Corsa is seen behind Vine's bike tooting her horn, before the BBC presenter stops in the road.

Pearson then gets out the car and is heard shouting: "Why the f*** would you stop in front of a car? You don't respect your f****** life. Move your bike, move your bike."

Mr Vine is heard trying to explain he was trying to keep a car door width away and she is seen kicking and pushing the bicycle.

As she goes to get in her car she is heard saying "If I hit you I could have been done for murder".

Later in the clip at a red light junction Mr Vine tried to take a picture of the the Pearson's car.

Pearson gets out again and said: "If you take a picture of my car again I'm going to knock you out because that's my personal belongings. Don't f****** take a picture."

Vine is also heard saying "don't assault me" and "don't hit me that would be an assault" before she gets back into her car.

Mr Vine also alleges as he came up to car Pearson made a gun sign with her hand aimed at him.

Giving evidence, Mr Vine said he had been commuting on his bike for five or six years, from his home in Chiswick to BBC Broadcasting House.

Asked about the second confrontation at the junction he said: "Again it was someone coming towards you purposeful like I'm coming towards you and I'm going to do something.

"She's in my space. And you hear in the footage she threatens to knock me out if I took her picture several times.

"Again I don't want to make any judgements about her or who she is but they are the words of a violent person and somebody who had hit people before without any question. That is why it seemed threatening.

"I have been hit before as a student and I didn't like it much and I was aware of a threat."

Under cross examination James O'Keeffe for the defence asked if Mr Vine was aware of the Highway Code and that he should have made a hand single when he stopped his bike.

He replied: "It is dangerous to signal when you are looking backwards.

"I always try to comply with the Highway Code at all times and if I didn't I am very sorry."

The defence also said Mr Vine had done this just for publicity and for his Facebook page, to which the witness said: "No, not in the slightest."

The court heard the online clip was viewed more than a million times on Mr Vine's Facebook and a total of 15million views across the Internet.

Asked about the gun sign, Mr O'Keeffe accused Mr Vine of racial stereotyping the defendant because she is black.

He said: "I suggest to you that you have racially stereotyped her as a black person and that gesture is associated with black people."

The presenter replied: "I have just told the truth and she knows she did that.

He added: "She formed her hand into the shape of a gun and cocked and motioned it to fire at me and I took that to be a serious threat."

Giving evidence Pearson said she believed there was enough space for Mr Vine to move over.

She said: "But he just stopped right in front of my car. It was quite quick and I was kind of shocked."

She said she had to perform an emergency stop and got out to try and push and move the bike out the way.

Pearson said she got out the car a second time because she was "alarmed" Mr Vine had followed her and tried to take a picture of the car.

She denied making a gun sign with her hand, but admitted she did give Mr Vine the finger.

Asked how she felt about the incident she said: "I know what I said was wrong and I'm open to apologise but we both done wrong.

"But you can't be riding like that on the road. If I wasn't as experienced I could have hit him."

Mr O'Keeffe said: " All she does is simply attempt to move his big out the way, foul mouthed I admit, but just move it out of the way."

District judge Timothy King adjourned the trial to pass verdict on Thursday, January 26, at the City of London Magistrates Court.

Pearson, of Vauxhall, South London, denies the charges and was granted conditional bail to appear for judgement.