Diogo Jota, a footballer of the National Team and Liverpool, died at the age of 28. The striker was traveling this Thursday, July 3, with his brother, André, from car to England when they had an accident on the A-52 road in the Spanish municipality of Cernadilla, in the province of Zamora. The funeral ceremonies will be held from 10 am on Saturday morning, at the Mother Church of Gondomar, led by the Bishop of Porto, Manuel Linda.
According to the Zamora mailthe accident that victimized Jota and the brother took place at the beginning of the early hours of Thursday when the Emergencies Center 112 of Castilla y León received an alert on 00h40, that a Lamborghini brand car had taken off a overtaking, causing a fire that spread through the vegetation.
According to the same Spanish newspaper, the source of the accident will have been bursting a tire, which caused it.
Sources of the Civil Guardia, cited by The country, They point to a possible speed of the vehicle, where the two brothers followed, during an overtaking on the stretch of the motorway where the maximum allowed speed is 120 kilometers per hour.
The same sources indicated that due to a possible speed of speed in a stretched stretch with an imperfect asphalt, a rear tire burst and caused the vehicle’s loss of control and the car eventually exploded.
The firefighters and the medical emergency team who immediately moved to the accident zone could do nothing but confirm the death of the two occupants, since the car was unrecognizable.
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