DULUTH — An Edina man died following a single-car crash along the North Shore of Lake Superior on Tuesday night, according to a news release from Cook County.
Douglas Paul Junker was dead at the scene of the accident on Hwy. 61, and Joanne Marie Bergstadt, also of Edina, was taken to a hospital in Duluth. Her condition is not known. According to WTIP radio, the car went off the road and crashed through a fence alongside a bike path and into a wooded area.
The Cook County Sheriff's Department and Minnesota State Patrol are investigating the accident.
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