A crazed wife clung to her husband's car windscreen kicking and screaming as he drove away.

The woman clambered onto the black Honda after a row with her husband in Kanchanaburi, western Thailand on Monday.

Shocked locals watched as the car sped away down the street with the spouse banging on the windscreen with her fist and screaming obscenities.

Street food seller Jum Mongluang, 57, said the woman first arrived on a motorcycle with two children on the back.

She was chasing her husband's car but he ignored her, so she rode in front of the vehicle to block him off.

Jum said that the wife climbed off the motorbike but her husband refused to open the car, so she jumped onto the bonnet and began hitting it.

Shockingly, she also left her young children, aged seven and eight, on the road as locals comforted them.

Officers who received complaints about the disturbance said it was a ''lover's spat''.

Police Colonel Attasit Pumketkaew said the woman holding onto the windshield had turned herself in and confirmed she had not been abused.

The policeman said: ''The two children that were deserted on the road have been taken care of. The woman on the car called us and said she had been quarrelling with her husband but she said it was not serious.''

After the wife calmed down, she asked her cousins to pick up the two children.

Police were not taking any further action against the wife or the husband.