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Chesapeake man dies in Suffolk motorcycle crash

Austin Lee Sallinger of Chesapeake died Sunday evening when he lost control of his motorcycle on South Quay Road in Suffolk, the Virginian-Pilot reported.

Suffolk spokeswoman Debbie George told the Suffolk News-Herald that Sallinger, 52, was going over 100 miles an hour.

“I think it’s safe to say that speed was a factor,” George told the newspaper.

The crash happened in a rural part of Suffolk, near where South Quay Road crosses the Blackwater River.

After Sallinger lost control of his motorcycle, he ran off the road and struck a guardrail, according to the Suffolk newspaper.

Sallinger was pronounced dead at the scene, and the road was closed for several hours while the accident was investigated.

Sallinger, of the 4000 block of Maple Drive in Chesapeake, was a member of Western Branch Community Church and a past master of Seaboard Masonic Lodge 56, according to his obituary.

Sallinger was a mechanical contractor and owner of A.L. Sallinger LLC. His company has done work at Fort Eustis, Naval Station Norfolk, Fort Story, and elsewhere.

He is survived by his wife Darla Sallinger, daughters Jenny Thompson and Brittany Sallinger, sons Robert M. and Jeremy D. Sallinger, and others.

Funeral services are planned for 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Sturtevant Funeral Home Portsmouth Boulevard Chapel.

Sallinger’s death is the 15^th – at least – fatal motorcycle accident in Southside Hampton Roads so far in 2009, according to a study by the Virginian-Pilot, and the second in Suffolk this month.

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