Ngoc Than Tri Nguyen, 52, of Vietnamese nationality and resident in Giustiniana, and Luca De Luca, 46, a restaurateur in Prati and a photographer by passion, who lived in Tomba di Nerone. Only in the late afternoon of Sunday and after hours of work between surveys and confirmations by the relatives, the local police of Rome Capital were able to identify the two motorcyclists who died Sunday morning in via del Foro Italico, in the area of the Tangenziale colloquially known as the Olimpica.
A stretch of road where accidents happen with disarming frequency. De Luca had a small daughter and ran a bar and snack bar in the “good” neighborhood of Prati in Rome. The other from Vietnam had long since arrived with his family in the capital. He leaves behind a daughter of just 15 years old and a partner. The two did not know each other but their destinies crossed in a cursed way at the end of June.
Dangerous road
The Parioli group agents are investigating the accident and, according to what we learn, they will highlight the danger of that stretch of road in their report. Both vehicles have been seized, and video surveillance images will be acquired to reconstruct the route and speed of the vehicles. Nothing is being ruled out.
The investigations
The two motorcycles were riding along Via del Foro Italico, towards the Olympic Stadium, on the same lane and direction of travel. From an initial reconstruction of the facts, it seems that the motorcyclist on the Triumph, De Luca, suddenly found himself facing the other on a Buell BL1, who may have wanted to take the exit for Via Salaria or may have veered off to the right to avoid a sudden obstacle.
Both died instantly, one crashed into a guardrail, the other was thrown several meters. This is why it is not excluded that excessive speed could be one of the causes of the accident. The dynamics are complex. The bodies of the two motorcyclists were transferred to the Gemelli hospital while waiting to understand whether an autopsy will be ordered or not.
20 deaths in June
The story is eerily reminiscent of what happened on Saturday on Via Tiburtina Valeria. Those who lost their lives were Nazzareno Sette, 37 years old from Marcellina, and Simone Esposito, 40 years old from Palestrina. The two, also motorcyclists, collided head-on on the road near Roviano, between Lazio and Abruzzo. The collision on the day of Saint Peter and Paul. For them too, the impact was fatal and they too did not know each other.
The death toll on the roads in Rome and the province rises to 81, twenty of which in June alone. In 2023, there were 193 deaths in Rome and the province, including those who died on the road and subsequently in hospitals, 28 percent more than the previous year, with an average age of those who lost their lives.
