A Missouri woman died Thursday night after the car she was driving at 8:47 p.m. went off state Route 18, into a pasture and rammed into a wall in the parking lot of the Dairy Farmers of America cheese factory in Wilmington Township, state police said.

Carolyn Geer, 57, of Caruthersville, Mo., was driving a 1987 Lincoln Town car north on Route 18, just past the state Route 208 intersection, when her car went off the road and ripped through a barbed-wire fence into a pasture owned by an Amish family bordering the cheese factory parking lot, police said.

Her car then hit a retaining wall head-on at the south end of the parking lot, police said.

She was taken to the hospital of Jameson Health System where she was pronounced dead by acting Lawrence County coroner Russell S. Noga at 9:30 p.m.

The cause of the accident is unknown and an autopsy will be performed to establish the cause of death, police said.

State police in New Castle were assisted at the scene by New Wilmington Borough Police Department, Pulaski Township Police Department, and New Wilmington Volunteer Fire Department.