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A woman claims a black hackney driver threw her out on the MOTORWAY after she threw up in his cab.

Vicky Abbott, from Moreton, said she was left drunkenly walking down the M53, after the driver slammed on his brakes and ordered her to get out - close to the Moreton Spur roundabout.

The 30-year-old claims the driver began screaming and swearing at her, after she threw up in his car and ordered her to pay him £40.

But when she told him she did not have the money and would need to get it from home - she claims he locked her in the taxi and told her he was taking her to a police station, before instead dumping her on the motorway, near junction 1.

Vicky, who works for Wirral Council , said: “I knew I had done wrong and drank too much and I said to him, ‘I don’t have £40 on me but I will get it from home or clean it up’.

“But he was just screaming and shouting at me saying ‘you are going to have to pay for this’ and then said he was taking me to a police station.

“I was locked in the back of the cab and he was stopping people and asking them where the nearest police station was.

“Then he said ‘I am taking you back to Liverpool.”

Vicky, who had got in the taxi with a friend, near Debenhams on North John Street, was in the taxi alone at this point and said he became aggressive when she questioned where he was taking her.

She said: “We had dropped my friend in Leasowe and he literally drove past my road saying he was taking me back to Liverpool.

He said ‘you are not being f*****g sick in my car’ and then slammed the brakes on, so I came off my seat.

“Then he said ‘get out the f******g car and put his arm through and pushed me out.

“It was only when I got out that I realised I was in the middle of the motorway.

“It was teeming down and there were no lights or hard shoulder and there were cars going 70mph coming towards me.”

Vicky said she walked along the highway to find a safer spot, where she was able to ring her mum who had to come and get her.

Following the terrifying incident Vicky said she wants to warn others to always get a drivers badge and registration number.

She said: “I understand him making me pay but then there is making me pay for it with my life.

“I take responsibility for having had too much to drink but I repeatedly said ‘take me home and I will pay for it or clean it up’ and he was just having none of it.

“He chucked me out on a motorway and wasn’t a bit concerned that I could have been run over.

“How many girls is he going to pick up over the Xmas period who have had too much to drink?

“I had just had a little bit too much to drink and too much to eat and felt sick.

“It would have taken me two seconds to clean up.

“What he did was ridiculous - I couldn’t even do that to someone I hated.”