My accident On February 29, 2012, I was riding my bicycle home from work. It was snowing and there were a few centimeters of snow on the ground. I took a street where the traffic goes very fast. The speed limit is 50 miles per hour (mph) which is about 80 kilometers per hour but cars often drive faster than the speed limit. I wasn't riding in traffic. I was riding to what appeared to me to be on the side of the road. I couldn't tell for sure because the road was covered in snow so the painted lines were not visible. I could only see the tracks left by the vehicles on the road. When a car suddenly saw me, it slammed on the brakes which caused it to lose control and hit me from behind. I was thrown back and landed on the windshield of the car that hit me and then I rolled off the back of the car. I suffered a traumatic brain injury. I was in the hospital for a long time. I struggle with sleeping well at night and I sometimes get back headaches and am currently unable to handle a full-time job.