By NANCY RUMP

UPPER TOWNSHIP – State Police are investigating the death of the driver of a motor vehicle that crashed and burned early this morning on Route 631.

According to Sgt. Robert Bauers of the Woodbine barracks, post-mortem testing is being done on the body today to determine exactly who perished in the fiery wreck. Police have yet to release the sex of the individual. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene.

The accident was reported to police at 3:58 a.m. Bauers said another driver came across the burning vehicle but had no way to put it out.

Troopers at the scene were able to determine the vehicle was traveling eastbound on the road at milepost 4. Bauers said they did not know how long it was burning before it was spotted by the other driver. No other cars were involved in the accident, he said.

The vehicle ran off the eastbound shoulder of the road for unknown reasons, Bauers said, and then struck several trees before becoming wedged between two of them. It was fully engulfed in flames when troopers arrived. The driver, the sole occupant in the vehicle, was subsequently trapped inside.

The accident remains under investigation with State Police at the Woodbine barracks and New Jersey State Police Fatal Accident Unit.