Police investigating the tragic motorway crash that claimed the lifetime of Portuguese footballer Diogo Jota imagine the Liverpool star was behind the wheel on the time – and will have been rushing.
Jota, 28, died alongside his youthful brother Andre Silva, 25, when their Lamborghini crashed on a motorway in Spain’s Zamora province within the early hours of final Thursday.
Initial reviews counsel the automobile could have suffered a tyre blowout whereas overtaking on the A52 close to Palacios de Sanabria, inflicting it to veer off the highway and catch fireplace.
According to Spain’s Guardia Civil, proof factors to extreme velocity taking part in a job within the deadly incident.
“Everything additionally factors to a doable extreme velocity past the velocity restrict of the highway [highway],” mentioned visitors authorities in Zamora.
Investigators analysed tyre marks discovered a ways from the affect website. Based on these markings, police mentioned, “all of the checks carried out up to now point out that the driving force of the crashed car was Diogo Jota.”
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The car was virtually utterly destroyed by the fireplace, making the forensic evaluation extra complicated. A full knowledgeable report is at the moment being ready for judicial evaluation.
The accident occurred simply 11 days after Jota married his longtime companion, Rute Cardoso, in Portugal. The couple had three kids collectively. The two brothers have been reportedly en path to the port metropolis of Santander, the place Jota deliberate to start his return to Liverpool for pre-season coaching.
Funeral companies for Jota and his brother have been held over the weekend of their hometown of Gondomar, close to Porto.
While some reviews had raised issues about uneven highway surfacing within the space the place the crash occurred, police informed Spanish media that the situation was not labeled as a high-risk or “black spot” and may have been safely navigable even at speeds above the posted 120 km/h (75 mph) restrict.
Tyre marks have been mentioned to stretch roughly 100 metres (330 toes) earlier than the crash website, offering police with additional perception into the incident.
