The victim, a woman in her 50s, was found with head trauma on Elizabeth Avenue just after 12:30 a.m.
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"All I heard was a loud screeching, and then I heard a bang," area resident Kasey Mathews said. "And then I heard people screaming outside to call 911 and everything."
The victim was taken to University Hospital in Newark, where she is expected to survive.
"She didn't say nothing," Derick, a witness, said. "She was broke up. She was hurt...When she hit the ground and I didn't see her move, and I ran over there to see if she was she breathing. When I saw her breathing, I told everyone call police."
A witness told police a black four-door sedan drove away from the scene.
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The Essex County Prosecutor's Office and Newark police are investigating, and authorities are also trying to determine if the early Halloween accident is related to a shooting that took place just around the corner.
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