OCTOBER 14, 2009 – A man in a wheelchair was seriously injured Tuesday evening when he was struck by a vehicle at an East Village intersection. The intersection accident occurred just before 5 p.m. at Ninth Avenue and E Street, San Diego police said. According to witnesses, the driver of the sedan that hit the man was talking on his cell phone when he struck another vehicle and then the man in the wheelchair, knocking him out of the chair and running over him. The driver’s cell phone was confiscated so police could determine what time a call was received or made. The victim, who was not identified, was taken to the trauma center at UCSD with serious injuries. The East Village pedestrian accident remains under investigation.