MORRISTOWN — Moments after a vehicle crashed into several parked cars on Lincoln Street Friday night, a man with a bloody wound to his leg got out of the vehicle and collapsed to the ground, eyewitnesses said.

Morristown police

The crash described by witnesses to NJ.com occurred in the vicinity where Morristown Police Chief Pete Demnitz

told MorristownGreen.com

police were investigating a shooting that occurred Friday night.

Demnitz told the website that the individual who had been shot was taken to Morristown Medical Center. The man's condition was not immediately available, the website reported.

Lt. Stuart Greer referred comment to the Morris County Prosecutor's Office Friday evening. No statement from the county prosecutor's office had been released as of Saturday.

Aida Sigocacia and her daughter, Leslie, said they heard a loud crash outside their Lincoln Street home around 5:30 p.m. Friday, and when they looked out the window they saw a black vehicle zigzagging along Lincoln Street.

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Leslie Sigocacia said the vehicle crashed into three parked cars, including her father's Ford Explorer, before the man got out of the car and collapsed on the snowy ground near the front of their home, which is located at the intersection of Lincoln Street and Garfield Street. The man had blood covering one of his pant legs, she said.

Police arrived on the scene five minutes later and an ambulance transported the man away shortly thereafter, she said.

Police remained on the scene until about 11 p.m. Friday and returned the next day to remove yellow police tape and to wash dried puddles of blood off the ground, she said.

Angela Paguay, who lives across the street from the Sigocacias, said she had been napping Friday when the incident occurred, but when she woke up she saw the flashing lights from police vehicles.

"It made me really scared," she said.

The man's vehicle had crashed into her mother's minivan, she said.