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Diogo Jota and his brother, André Silva, died in a road accident on July 3.
“Everything points” to speeding, say the initial skills of the Spanish Civil Guardian: “Diogo Jota probably drove the car at the time of the accident.”
The initial results of the investigation to the road accident that Portuguese footballer Diogo Jota and his brother André Silva point to “speeding”the Spanish Civil Guarda said on Tuesday.
The car where the two followed could be circulating the More than 120 km/hmaximum speed allowed on the highway, police advance to SIC Notícias.
The expert report is still “ongoing” and focuses on the “brands left” by one of the Lamborghini tires that went out at dawn on Thursday in Spain, but “Everything points to a significant speed”.
The Spanish newspaper cites the traffic brigade in the Zamora region, which points to two likely causes of the disaster: “a problem with a vehicle wheel and excessive speed“.
According to the agency France Press (AFP), the same source states that “Diogo Jota probably drove the car at the time of the accident. ”
The 28-year-old Portuguese international died at dawn on Thursday due to the accident in A52 in Cernadilla, Zamora, Spain. The brother, André Silva, 25, also lost his life in the accident.
O Lamborghini burned down; the tires marks on the asphalt point to a sudden braking. Initially, the first information pointed to the bursting of one of the tires during an overtaking as the probable cause of the despair that caused the tragedy.
According to El Mundo, the bodies of athletes could only be identified with the help of their families, who identified their brothers’ belongings.
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View of the place where Diogo Jota suffered the Fatal Road Accident
To avoid altitude pressure, Diogo Jota, who had been operated on his lungs, was advised not to travel by planeand so it will have rented the car from Porto to Santander, in northern Spain, from where I would take a ferry for England.
The two footballers took place on Saturday, in Gondomar, Earth and Club that saw them grow, and was attended by several figures of Portuguese and international football.
The death of André and Diogo, who was the father of three and had married less than two weeks with Ruth, with whom he had dated since he was 15, left the world in shock.
