A 35-year-old Killeen woman died Friday after the car she was driving left the road, collided with a stack of railroad ties and vaulted onto an embankment before catching fire, witnesses tolk Killeen police.

Witnesses said that the red Mercury Cougar driven by Nutosha Rena Allen traveled west in the 4100 block of Water Street at a high speed while she hung outside the car door.

The car crossed a sidewalk, driveway, and yard and came to rest in a wooded area, police said.

Allen was taken in critical condition to the Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center and was pronounced dead at 6:04 p.m.