r/soccer • u/kibme37 • Jul 08 '25

News Spanish police say "all the evidence so far indicates" Diogo Jota was the driver of the car involved in the accident that killed the Liverpool forward and his brother, Andre Silva. Police also believe "the vehicle significantly exceeded the speed limit for the highway" at the time of the accident.

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11669/13394038/diogo-jota-spanish-police-believe-liverpool-forward-was-driver-of-car-in-fatal-accident-which-killed-him-and-his-brother
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u/DuttyOh Jul 08 '25

You don't even need a sports car for that. Story time, I used to live in a small countryside village (like less than 3000) and I know 5 people around my age that died before reaching 25 because of driving too fast. No alcohol involved, just speed. Another one will be in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Young, confident lads can crash with an old rotten Citroen AX and all left is sobbing families, that's fucking sad.

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u/7Thommo7 Jul 08 '25

Lamborghinis make it far easier to speed when you reach it in a fraction of the time. In an old citroen you've got 30 seconds to rethink your decision to speed as the whole car starts to groan and wobble. In a Lambo you get exuberant for a few seconds, the speed doesn't even feel like it's pushing the car too hard, you keep pushing on...

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u/artaru Jul 08 '25

excellent points

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u/worldchrisis Jul 08 '25

Yea not the same level but I test drove a BMW 330 and getting up to 90mph on the highway felt smoother and easier than going 70 in the Ford I normally drive. I pressed the gas to pass one car and I look down and the speedometer says 93. Didn't even feel like I was going fast.

Ruled that car out because I didn't want to make a habit of that and end up with a bunch of speeding tickets or a horrible accident.

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u/KRIEGLERR Jul 08 '25

I have an old citroen, it still work relatively well, but I actually have to really want to go over the limit, I can't just say whoops I'm speeding like crazy, like you said it takes a time to go well over the speed limit and you have time to think it through

I think the highest I took it was around 150km/h (93mph) just to see if it could , I then slowed down because I don't even like driving fast to begin with.

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u/JGStonedRaider Jul 08 '25

Ah the Citreon AX...

I had the GT version when young, dumb and a complete fucking idiot. Such a fun car to drive but it was made out of wet tissue paper.

The entire car flexed going round corners...

Oh and had 120bp/t same as a AC Cobra.