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The Spanish constabulary person released a 2nd connection regarding the car clang which claimed the lives of Liverpool prima Diogo Jota and member Andre Silva.
The Portugal planetary and his younger sibling died successful a car crash successful Zamora, northwestern Spain successful the aboriginal hours of Thursday greeting portion travelling to Santander.
Local constabulary confirmed that the car suffered a tyre blowout portion overtaking and instantly caught fire, with exigency services pronouncing the 2 brothers dormant astatine the scene.
“A roadworthy mishap occurred astatine 12.30am this greeting astatine kilometre 65 of the A-52 motorway, successful the municipality of Cernadilla, Zamora,” the constabulary connection read.
“A conveyance near the roadworthy and everything indicates tyre burst portion overtaking. As a effect of the accident, the car caught occurrence and some radical were killed.”
Following a wake, the brace of brothers were rapidly laid to remainder astatine a work attended by galore of Jota's Liverpool and Portugal teammates successful their hometown of Gondomar adjacent Porto connected Saturday.
The constabulary person continued to analyse proceedings but connected Tuesday afternoon, a 2nd connection was released by the Civil Guard.
Virgil van Dijk and Andy Robertson attended Diogo Jota's funeral. Image: Getty
Although not confirmed, arsenic per El Mundo, constabulary said they judge grounds collected points towards Jota apt being the operator of the Lamborghini and perchance being implicit the velocity bounds erstwhile the tyre blew out.
"The adept study is inactive being worked connected and finalised," the Civil Guard said, arsenic per AFP.
“Among different things postulation constabulary from the Zamora subdivision of the Civil Guard are studying the tread marked by 1 of the wheels of the vehicle.
“Everything is besides pointing to a imaginable precocious excess of velocity implicit the permitted velocity connected that agelong of the motorway.
“All the tests carried retired for the infinitesimal constituent to the operator of the clang conveyance being Diogo Jota.
“The adept constabulary study erstwhile it is finalised volition beryllium handed implicit to a tribunal successful Puebla de Sanabria.”
It was besides suggested by El Mundo that relatives of the brothers were cardinal successful determining astir who was the operator and who was the rider erstwhile the tragic mishap took spot arsenic they identified idiosyncratic belongings.
The last results from the lawsuit person not yet been disclosed arsenic the probe remains ongoing and it is unclear whether they volition beryllium made nationalist astatine this stage.
Jota, who scored 65 goals for Liverpool aft joining successful 2020, had lone precocious got joined to puerility sweetheart Rute Cardoso, the parent of his 3 children.
He had posted a video from his wedding conscionable hours earlier the crash.
Liverpool volition play their archetypal crippled since the calamity connected Sunday erstwhile Arne Slot's broadside instrumentality connected Preston successful a affable which volition beryllium shown connected ITV.
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