AKRON, Ohio -- A woman died in a fiery one-car crash Monday in Northwest Akron.

The woman was driving southbound on Merriman Road between Mayfair Road and Sunnyside Avenue about 4:45 p.m. when she veered off the left side of the road and sideswiped a tree in the residential neighborhood, police said.

The impact of the crash severed the driver's side portion of the car. The wheel and door of the woman's Pontiac Grand Am were split from the rest of the car.

The car flipped over and burst into flames, police said. A police officer pulled the woman's body from the burning car.

Officers said there were no stop marks or any other indication the woman tried to stop before her car hit the tree.

No other car was involved and no one else was injured, police said. Debris from the car ended up dozens of yards away.

The woman's identity will be released once her family is notified. Akron crash-scene investigators and Akron Public Safety Director Charles Brown were still at the scene as of about 5:45 p.m.

Merriman Road in that area is closed from Memorial Parkway to Eaton Avenue while police investigate.