{"id":96396,"date":"2025-12-16T06:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T06:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/96396\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T06:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T06:45:07","slug":"family-mourns-bicyclist-hit-by-car-in-rancho-penasquitos-nbc-7-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/96396\/","title":{"rendered":"Family mourns bicyclist hit by car in Rancho Pe\u00f1asquitos \u2013 NBC 7 San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Rancho Pe\u00f1asquitos family is dealing with holiday heartache after their grandfather was recently killed when he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsandiego.com\/news\/local\/bicyclist-fatally-struck-by-car-in-rancho-penasquitos\/3944219\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hit by a car while riding his bike<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened last Wednesday. Yi Zhang, 60, was bicycling to the gym, while visiting family, when police say a car hit him from behind, killing him on Salmon River Road.<\/p>\n<p>From riding in China to our nation&#8217;s capital to San Diego,\u00a0cycling was life for Yi Zhang.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe&#8217;s an outdoor fanatic, and he likes to travel,&#8221; said his younger brother Fan Zhang.<\/p>\n<p>Yi Zhang traveled from China to San Diego earlier this year to help care for their 85-year-old mother, as well as his 4-year-old and 8-month-old grandchildren living in Rancho Pe\u00f1asquitos.<\/p>\n<p>The family shared birthday pictures of Yi Zhang with his mother and grandkids, but sadly, future celebrations won&#8217;t include him anymore. He died Wednesday night at around 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>As grief sometimes does, it\u2019s turned to guilt at times for the family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think both my wife and I blame ourselves for a lot of reasons. Like, why would we let him, you know, try to ride to the gym?&#8221; said son-in-law Gary Yang.<\/p>\n<p>San Diego police say a 51-year-old woman headed northbound on Salmon River Road and Pipilo Street didn&#8217;t see the bicyclist and ran into his back tire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a great loss for me,\u201d his brother said.<\/p>\n<p>As the family reflects on the man he was, they also think about the time they shared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe treated people with warmness and sincerity,&#8221; his son-in-law said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re totally very close,\u201d Fan Zhang said. \u201cWe traveled together. We dreamed together. But when we were young, we fought a lot. And since he&#8217;s only one year older than me, he&#8217;s always taking care of me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After recently retiring as a government officer in China, family says Yi Zhang was looking forward to spending more time with his mother and grandchildren. Instead, they&#8217;ll have to embrace the memories they shared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really a pity that our kids. He couldn\u2019t see or be there with our kids,&#8221; Yang said.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the woman involved in the crash stayed on scene. There is no word yet from police on whether she\u2019ll face charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Rancho Pe\u00f1asquitos family is dealing with holiday heartache after their grandfather was recently killed when he was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[13098,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-96396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-rancho-penasquitos","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}