{"id":59958,"date":"2025-09-06T20:41:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T03:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/sunnyvale-councilmember-injured-in-bike-accident\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T20:41:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T03:41:31","slug":"sunnyvale-councilmember-injured-in-bike-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/sunnyvale-councilmember-injured-in-bike-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunnyvale councilmember injured in bike accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Sunnyvale official\u2019s recent bicycle accident\u00a0is reigniting concerns about traffic safety. Sunnyvale Councilmember Richard Mehlinger was hit by a car while\u00a0riding his bike\u00a0on California Avenue Aug. 30, breaking his left thumb and right wrist. Mehlinger, a staunch traffic safety advocate,\u00a0said the incident shows the necessity and urgency of installing safety infrastructure. \u201cThere wasn\u2019t a bike lane, so I was having to bicycle in traffic, and that\u2019s why I got hit,\u201d Mehlinger told San Jos\u00e9 Spotlight. \u201cFrankly, I\u2019m really lucky to be alive.\u201d Despite being a minor crash, Mehlinger said the two-month recovery time and financial requirements could be devastating for&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/sunnyvale-councilmember-injured-in-bike-accident\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Sunnyvale official\u2019s recent bicycle accident\u00a0is reigniting concerns about traffic safety. Sunnyvale Councilmember Richard Mehlinger was hit by a car while\u00a0riding his bike\u00a0on California Avenue Aug. 30, breaking his left thumb and right wrist. Mehlinger, a staunch traffic safety advocate,\u00a0said the incident shows the necessity and urgency of installing safety infrastructure. \u201cThere wasn\u2019t a bike &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}