A 60-YEAR-OLD woman was so enraged by a taxi driver showing her an obscene sign, she planted herself in front of his taxi.

Madam Lee Geok Hiok, a cleaner, was parking her car along the road behind People's Park Centre at 11.30pm on Tuesday when the taxi driver sounded his horn.

She said: 'I gestured to him to wait and he made this rude sign with his finger.'

She marched to his stationary taxi, opened the driver's door and asked him why he showed her the bad sign.

'He tried to deny doing so but then apologised,' she said.

She called the police and held onto the door to prevent him from driving off.

When he moved his taxi forward, she fell onto the road, bruising her right knee.

When the taxi was about to exit from Havelock Square, the feisty woman stood in its way in front of the Family and Juvenile Court.

The taxi then reversed and sped pass her. Police arrived soon and interviewed her and several witnesses.

In April last year, financial adviser Alex Lim, 30, died after he stood in front of the taxi driven by 68-year-old Lee Yuet Kong along Scotts Road.

Mr Lim wanted to get Lee's particulars after a minor collision but Lee drove away, throwing him onto the bonnet.

When the cab braked abruptly, Mr Lim fell backwards and hit his head on the road. He died a month later in hospital.

Lee was jailed for a year and banned from driving for life for reckless driving.