Diogo Jota: Speeding likely cause of footballer’s car crash, police say

The Liverpool subordinate is believed to person been driving astatine precocious velocity erstwhile helium and his member Andre Silva died past week, according to Spanish police.

Liverpool and Portugal prima Diogo Jota was apt speeding erstwhile his car veered disconnected a motorway successful Spain past week, sidesplitting him and his brother, Spanish constabulary said.

The daze deaths of Jota, 28, and Andre Silva, 25, connected July 3 plunged the shot satellite into mourning, little than 2 weeks aft the striker had gotten married.

An ongoing probe is examining “the marks near by 1 of the vehicle’s wheels … everything points to a imaginable excessive velocity beyond the road’s velocity limit”, the Civil Guard said connected Tuesday.

“All the tests conducted truthful acold bespeak that the operator of the conveyance was Diogo Jota,” it added.

The unit had antecedently said a tyre had astir apt blown retired portion the conveyance was overtaking, causing it to clang and burst into flames successful the northwestern state of Zamora.

Just hours earlier the accident, Jota had posted a video of his June 22 wedding to spouse Rute Cardoso, with whom helium had 3 children.

The deaths sparked an outpouring of grief, peculiarly successful the brothers’ autochthonal Portugal and astatine Jota’s Premier League nine Liverpool.

Political leaders arsenic good arsenic prima players from Portugal and Liverpool joined household and friends astatine the ceremonial connected Saturday successful the Porto suburb of Gondomar.

Following spells astatine Atletico Madrid, Porto and Wolverhampton Wanderers, Jota became a instrumentality favourite astatine Liverpool aft joining the Premier League giants successful 2020.

He netted 65 times for the Reds successful 5 seasons, lifting the League Cup and FA Cup successful 2021-22 and helping them triumph a record-equalling 20th English league rubric past season.

The striker besides earned 49 caps for Portugal and was portion of the squad that won this year’s UEFA Nations League.

Younger member Andre played successful midfield for FC Penafiel successful Portugal’s 2nd tier.

Debris is pictured on the A-52 motorway astatine the clang tract wherever Liverpool guardant Diogo Jota and his member Andre Silva died successful a car clang adjacent Cernadilla, Zamora, Spain, July 3, 2025 [Cesar Manso/AFP]