According to 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS sister station, WDIO, authorities were called to a traffic accident in the Tofte area at around 8:30 p.m. Upon arrival, responding units found two people in a vehicle, including Douglas Paul Junker,

Douglas Paul Junker was dead at the scene of the accident on Hwy. 61 and Joanne Marie Bergstadt, also of Edina, was transported to a hospital in Duluth. Her condition is not known. According to WTIP, the car went off the road and crashed through a fence alongside a bike path and into a wooded area.