Why I joined 'the ride of silence'

When Najari Smith was riding his bike during rush hour, he was run off the road by an SUV and sustained serious injuries.  He remembers that no one pulled over to help him.  He became interested in the plight of cyclists in cities, and found that in the City of Richmond alone, there had been 18 cyclists injured in traffic and three others killed that year.  It was then that he joined others in the Ride of Silence, a global event that honors bicyclists killed or injured while riding, and calls on motorists to be aware and to share the road.  He writes about it in first person, on Richmond Pulse.