DULUTH, MN : Two adults and a 2-year-old child died, and three others were injured in a crash on Monday, 2nd April 2018

Two adults and a 2-year-old child died, and three others were injured in a crash involving a wrong-way driver on Interstate 35 in Duluth during the early morning hours of Monday, April 2.

A 1997 Toyota 4Runner, driven by Duluth resident Aaron David Dame, 23, was traveling north on southbound I-35 near 40th Avenue West when it struck a 2001 GMC Yukon head-on shortly before 1 a.m. Monday, according to the State Patrol.

The crash killed both Dame and the Yukon’s driver, Duanda Letrice Robinson, 26, of Duluth, according to the State Patrol.

Two-year-old Damiah Anne Anderson of Duluth, who was a passenger in Robinson’s vehicle, died after being transported to Essentia Health-St. Mary’s Medical Center, the Patrol reported.

Dame’s passenger, Abigail Kristine Ptasnik, 22, of Duluth, was transported to the Hennepin County Medical Center with life-threatening injuries.

It’s believed Dame had been drinking as alcohol was found in his system, the Patrol said.

According to state court records, Dame was convicted of drunken driving in June 2016. His record also includes convictions for underage consumption of alcohol, drug possession, criminal damage to property and speeding.

Two passengers in Robinson’s vehicle — Arriana Nicole Norling, 22, of Minneapolis, and an infant boy from Minneapolis named Jajaun Anthony Starks — were transported to Essentia Health-St. Mary’s Medical Center with what authorities described as non-life-threatening injuries.

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