A mum who told environmental protesters to "move out the f***ing way" after driving at them has dubbed the campaigners "rude".
Footage of Sherilyn Speid clashing with Insulate Britain protesters has been widely shared online following the confrontation in Purfleet, Essex last week.
The 34-year-old said she politely asked the protesters to move from the road because she needed to get her 11-year-old to school.
When they refused and allegedly laughed at her, Sherilyn said she got angry and decided to drive at them.
"I didn’t hit them I just nudged them slowly along the road," the single mum said of, what she called, the "scare tactic", The Sun reported.
The counselling and mentoring business owner said she would never hurt anyone and is not violent.
“What they’re doing is wrong. They’re not peaceful, they’re obstructive and they’re rude," she continued.
"I’m upset I lost my temper and maybe I could’ve gone about it in a different way but I will always stand up for what I believe in — that people should be entitled to live their normal lives."
Sherilyn said she was standing up for other mums who needed to take their children to school in the mornings.
She does so in an £80,000 Range Rover velar, which has low fuel efficiency and typically does about 25 miles per gallon.
The mum said she approved of people protesting for a better planet, but wants them to do it outside Parliament rather than on the roads.
Insulate Britain has repeatedly apologised for its tactics but argues that they're necessary to get people's attention.
Sherilyn later wrote on Instagram : "I never run them over, I gave them a nudge, So dramatic man."
Appearing to laugh off media attention, in a follow-up post the mum added: "Someone said RAGE ROVER," with several laughing emojis.
In the footage of the confrontation a man can be heard shouting "that's it, push them out of the road" as the mum approaches.
Sherilyn drives her car right up behind two of the protesters, stopping the large vehicle as it touches the back of one of their heads.
With the SUV towering over the woman as she sits on the floor, the enraged driver gets out of the vehicle and strides through the group's signage.
"I'm not joking, my son needs to get to school," she says.
"My son is 11 and he needs to get to school and I need to get to work."
Sherilyn returns to her car and begins driving it into one of the protesters, who grimaces and cries out "ow, ow, ow".
A man shouts "well get out of the road then you silly c***" before the woman and her young son start screaming at her from the doors of the car.
The video was posted by Insulate Britain, which has been campaigning for a government led programme to make the country's homes better at retaining heat.
"We have a responsibility to stop our elderly from freezing to death, to stop children living in cold homes and to stop future generations from an unimaginably horrific future," the group wrote alongside the video.
The group is calling for a national programme to ensure homes are insulated to be low energy by 2030.
It wants the government to fund the insulation of all social housing by 2025 and publish a "legally-binding national plan" for a low energy and low carbon retrofit of all homes in Britain by 2030.
