"Diogo Jota did not speed up."
Witnesses testified that the late Diogo Jota, who died in an accidental car accident, did not speed up.
Liverpool striker Diogo Jota, from Portugal National University, died on the 3rd (Korea time) in an unbelievable car accident on the A-52 highway in Samora, Spain. He was 28. The younger brother Andre Silva, who accompanied Jota, also died at the scene. It was such a terrible accident that the tires of a Lamborghini supercar worth 180,000 pounds (about 330 million won) were flattened that the vehicle went off the road and burned down in flames. The tire skid mark was reportedly found 100 meters outside, and local police pointed to the possibility of speeding as the likely cause of death, with the driver being Diogo Jota at the time of the accident. It was also claimed that the asphalt on the road where the accident occurred was not uniform, but 'All evidence points to the possibility of speeding exceeding the highway speed limit'
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Jota's Lamborghini, which was running at a speed of 200 kilometers per hour to take a ferry to Santander, northern Spain, on the A-52 road in Cernadilla near Zamora, northwestern Spain, near the Portuguese border, reported an accident when a tire exploded during overtaking.
However, on the 10th (Korea time), a witness overturned the police report. Jose Azevedo, a truck driver who filmed the first video at the scene of the accident, testified that there was no speeding at the time of the accident, releasing the video from the angle of the truck dashboard. "I took a video, stopped the car and tried to help, but unfortunately there was nothing I could do", he expressed his regret. "I have a clean conscience. I didn't know who was in the car that day. I offer my condolences to my family"I promise my family. They were not speeding. It's a dark road, but I was able to check the model and color of the vehicle. I drive this road every day from Monday to Saturday. I'm well aware of what this road is like."
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It was also reported that a female driver almost died on the highway just an hour before the death of the Jota brothers. Spanish media AS reported that a female driver in his 60s was seriously injured and taken to a hospital by firefighters 65 kilometers from the road where Jota died.
Following Jota's death, the head of the central government of Zamora State referred to the road "A-52 as a very dangerous road". The Mirror reported that there were 19 traffic accidents on the road in 2023, with an average of 1.5 deaths per accident. About 40 potholes (dents on the road) complaints were filed by drivers to Spain's Ministry of Transport in the month of last year, according to La Opinion de Zamora. Despite fog, dark lighting, and rugged terrain, the road, which passes through mountain and forest areas, is known to be the main route used by drivers traveling from northern Portugal to Santanter and Bilbao ports, or toward France and northeast, according to the media.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
