A SIX-year-old girl has been left scared to go out with her mum after they were racially abused by a crazed driver on the A127.

Naomi Joseph was driving home towards Southend in her black Nissan Juke with her daughter, six, when a man driving a dark grey Mini started driving very closely behind them and flashing his lights, before cutting her up and swerving around her car to get in front.

As a result of the man’s behaviour, the mum-of-one switched lanes between Rayleigh Weir and Progress Road.

But he then slowed down to drive beside her and launched his verbal attack.

The 28-year-old victim said: “He drove up beside me and started racially abusing me and my daughter.

“He then got in front of me and got out of the car at the lights at Progress Road and was shouting look at your skin you’re dirty and making hand gestures so I quickly wound up my windows and locked my doors.

“He carried on driving dangerously and throwing abuse all the way into Southend.”

Naomi, from Shoebury, added: “My daughter is so worried she won’t even come shopping with me now. She keeps saying: ‘What if he is there?’

“She loves her school and her friends so much but has now been saying we should move house and move school. We want to move after this, I have put up with racism all my life and normally I just let it go, but I won’t have my daughter living in fear. It’s so frustrating.”

The man is thought to be aged in his 40s, bald, and spoke with a Newcastle accent.

There was a white truck close to Naomi’s vehicle and the Mini on the A127 for most of the way from Progress Road to The Bell, whose driver would have heard or seen the incident, at about 2pm on Friday.

Naomi was unable to get the truck’s vehicle registration number.

Police are investigating and are urging anyone with information to make contact with Southend’s community policing team.

An Essex Police spokesman said: “Anyone with information, who witnessed the incident, or has dashcam footage available, is asked to make contact with Southend’s Community Policing Team quoting the crime reference number 42/66498/20.”