"When I noticed they were aggro I started to veer slightly to give them more space. They sped up so quickly and started veering into me to push me off the road," she said. "I lost my balance and then they rammed towards me a bit more so that I needed to grab onto the back boot of their car. "When that happened, they accelerated so fast I fell back but as I was falling, I smacked my head against the boot of his car. That's where I hit my head as I fell." She suffered bruises and grazes all over her body from the fall, and got a five-centimetre gash on her eyebrow from where she hit her head. Loading

On Thursday, she went to the dentist to fix her tooth which had a large chip in it. She has also had bouts of memory loss since the incident. "Every inch of my body is bruised and grazed and my face is the size of a balloon," she said on Thursday. "I have had some memory loss and that has been the most scary thing. When I got into the ambulance I couldn't remember my name or what day it was. And yesterday morning I woke up and for 10 minutes I struggled to remember what day of the week it was." Police are appealing for public assistance after Lucia was left injured. Lucia believes the driver of the car tried to force her off the road on purpose and says she is keen for police to find them.

"There is no way that they didn't do it on purpose to scare me and there was no way that he or she did not know that they hit me ... there is no way they could not have known," she said. "These are heavily dense, populated areas with a lot of cyclists who are pretty much a part of the furniture. The aggression happening from drivers to cyclists is seriously injuring people and could potentially kill," she said. "I think it's attributed to severe congestion in Melbourne, cyclists are trying to help decongest roads by riding to work and I also understand why drivers are aggravated, the traffic is so bad and infrastructure is not keeping up but something needs to be done." A spokeswoman said police were appealing for public assistance after a cyclist was left injured in Brunswick East on Tuesday.

Investigators are appealing for any witnesses, or anyone with CCTV from surrounding streets or dash cam footage to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or submit a confidential report online at www.crimestoppersvic.com.au The gash on her eyebrow after her head hit the boot of the car.