Diogo Jota and his brother, Andre Silva, have tragically died after the Lamborghini they were travelling in suffered a tyre blowout and veered off the road. Disturbing footage has surfaced showing the wreckage of the burning supercar following the fatal incident.
Shocking video footage has emerged of the Lamborghini consumed by flames, moments after the Liverpool forward was killed in the crash. The clip captures the harrowing aftermath of the accident involving the Portuguese star.
Jota, 28, and his younger brother Andre, 26, reportedly lost control of the vehicle while overtaking in the northern Spanish province of Zamora at approximately 12:30 a.m. The two were on their way to Santander, where they intended to board a ferry to the United Kingdom, planning to continue their journey to Liverpool.
Due to recent lung surgery, Jota had been medically advised not to travel by air, which led them to opt for road and sea travel instead. The distressing footage, captured by a passing vehicle, was later published by CNN Portugal and shows the car engulfed in flames.
In the opening moments of the video, the intense blaze lights up a dark section of the A52 motorway, located a few hundred metres ahead. As the vehicle filming the scene draws closer and slows down, the fire is visibly coming from the roadside on the left.
The Lamborghini is completely destroyed, with the charred remains barely recognisable as a vehicle. The video cuts off just as the camera passes the crash site, leaving a haunting final image of the devastation.
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The Liverpool star was travelling by car after being told by medics he shouldn’t catch a plane after the surgery. CNN Portugal’s sports editor Rui Laura said today live on air: “The surgery he had had was lung surgery and he had been advised against flying following this.
“He was on his way to the northern Spanish port city of Santander to cross the ferry and reach the UK that way and carry on with the car once he reached Britain.
Another Portuguese journalist, Victor Pinto told the country’s CMTV channel: “Diogo Jota sometimes chose to travel by road because he had some pulmonary discomfort, nothing serious, and as we know, there is a ferry boat that connects the south of England to Spain’s Cantabria region.
“The information we have is that he was going to take a ferry to Santander, so this means it wasn’t exactly a road trip from England to Portugal.
“In this case, Diogo Jota would have made the ferry trip with his brother.”
Police confirmed that the Lamborghini the brothers were travelling in veered off the road after suffering a tyre blowout while attempting to overtake another vehicle. The car subsequently burst into flames.
El Pais reported that the extent of the fire damage to the bodies made it impossible to carry out the tests required to definitively identify the victims as the Liverpool footballer and his brother.
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