Police in RI release details, names of 20-year-old and 21-year-old victims in double fatal motorcycle crash

Police have released the names of the victims and details concerning a double-fatal motorcycle crash on Wednesday.

According to Cranston Police, personnel responded to a report of a crash involving a motocross racing motorcycle and an SUV at the intersection of Broad Street and Wheeler Avenue at just before 8:15 p.m.

The motorcycle was being operated by 21-year-old Jovanni E. Delgiudice of Providence, RI and the passenger identified as 20-year-old Yasmary Valdera also of Providence, RI.

Delgiudice and Valdera were transported to Rhode Island Hospital by Cranston Rescue personnel and later succumbed to their injuries. The operator of the SUV was not injured.

The Cranston Police state that the preliminary findings of the crash reveal that shortly after 8:00 p.m., Delgiudice was operating a black motocross racing motorcycle with Valdera on the back travelling southbound on Broad Street. The motorcycle was a 2023 Yamaha YZ125 and was not equipped with any headlights or emergency equipment. Neither Delgiudice nor Valdera were wearing helmets or had a motorcycle license.

Two eyewitnesses who were also driving northbound stated the motorcycle was travelling at a high rate of speed passing them on the left illegally and driving at oncoming traffic. Witnesses also noted that the motorcycle had no lights and visibility of the motorcycle was poor.

As Delgiudice approached the intersection of Wheeler Avenue at a high rate of speed, a 2014 Red Nissan Pathfinder travelling northbound was in the process of turning left (west) onto Wheeler. Avenue. Delgiudice then skidded approximately fifty feet and crashed into the front passenger side quarter of the Nissan Pathfinder.

Delgiudice and Valdera were thrown from the motorcycle.

There is no evidence of any wrongdoing or any charges pending against the operator of the Nissan Pathfinder at this time. The Cranston Police Traffic Reconstruction Unit and the Rhode Island Medical Examiners Office continue to investigate the crash.