WALNUT CREEK — Cara De Jong woke up, splayed out and covered in blood, on the corner of Treat Boulevard at the end of September. She had landed there after a four-door sedan collided into the side of her Urban Arrow cargo bike during her Monday morning commute to the office, while she was turning left onto Buskirk Avenue shortly before sunrise.

Now she’s forced to drive through that same intersection almost daily, relegated to knee scooters and crutches while she heals from a collision that she said sent her to John Muir’s trauma center for a broken nose and a laceration where her foot got tangled up in her bike’s chain. Dizzy spells and nausea tied to inner ear trauma have prevented her from mounting her bike in the weeks since, she said.

“I felt shame when I got hit,” De Jong said. “It

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