San Diego Police say the man had been drinking when he crossed El Cajon Blvd. on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
SAN DIEGO \u2014 A suspected drunken pedestrian suffered serious injuries when he illegally crossed a street in the University Heights community of San Diego and was struck by a vehicle, authorities said Sunday.<\/p>\n
The 36-year-old man suffered an open fracture to his leg and a partial amputation of his foot, the San Diego Police Department reported.<\/p>\n
Police said the man was illegally crossing in the 2300 block of El Cajon Boulevard — walking from the north sidewalk to the south — and was struck about 9:15 p.m. Saturday by a 2007 Mercedes-Benz S550 that was traveling in the No. 1 lane of westbound El Cajon Boulevard.<\/p>\n
The motorist who was driving the Mercedes-Benz was not suspected of having been driving under the influence of alcohol. However, the pedestrian was determined to have been drinking.<\/p>\n
The SDPD Traffic Division will be handling the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Diego Police say the man had been drinking when he crossed El Cajon Blvd. on Saturday night.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":509485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-509484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-san-diego","12":"tag-sandiego","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115878919068263081","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}