HAMPTON — Police here are investigating a crash that killed a man Monday night.
The man was identified as 21-year-old Austin Michael Powers of Norfolk.
It happened at around 6:21 p.m. in the 300 block of Big Bethel Road. Two motorcycles were involved.
Officers said Powers died at the scene, another man was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
“The preliminary investigation has revealed that both motorcycles were traveling southbound on Big Bethel Road at a high rate of speed when the driver of each motorcycle lost control of their vehicle, left the roadway, and threw each driver from their vehicle before coming to rest several yards from the original crash,” police wrote in a news release.
Information on the identity of the injured ride was not immediately released.