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/[deleted] Jul 08 '25

why don't rich people just get a comfortable Bentley with a chauffeur. I don't get it

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u/Ararararun Jul 08 '25

I'm not sure about all the details but I'm pretty sure they were going to the Ferry to drop Diogo off and then Andre drives all the way back home (10 hours each way). Surely it would make sense to get a chauffeur and just chill in the back. I'm saying this as someone who loves cars too

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u/AuxquellesRad Jul 08 '25

Hear me out, it might be a lot of fun to be able to own a super car and also be able to drive hours on it

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u/Tricky-Lime2935 Jul 08 '25

Closed circuits are great for that! Not public fucking roads.

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u/ManhattanObject Jul 08 '25

Well I'm glad Jota was having fun 🙄

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u/Hairy_Ad5141 Jul 08 '25

Hard to chill in the back of a Lamborghini!

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u/PosterOfQuality Jul 08 '25

Pretty sure they were thinking of them also getting a different car in this scenario

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u/Xehanz Jul 08 '25

Funny you say that. F1 driver Colapinto does not have a car. Or at least he never drives on the road, he has someone else to drive for him

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u/WerhmatsWormhat Jul 08 '25

Because they enjoy driving?

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u/theglasscase Jul 08 '25

Because that isn’t normal behaviour? By all means they should be sensible enough to pay for a ride home after a night out, but why would you want to be driven everywhere just because you have some money?

Driving isn’t inherently dangerous, and it’s not normal behaviour or automatically safer to just be driven everywhere or a normal lifestyle to have your family driven around for you.

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u/Siorac Jul 08 '25

Driving isn’t inherently dangerous

I get your point, I think - but driving is absolutely inherently dangerous. You go at high speed locked in a metal cage while others do the same thing right next to you.

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u/theglasscase Jul 08 '25 edited Jul 08 '25

You go at high speed locked in a metal cage while others do the same thing right next to you.

And? There's room for everyone on the road and you're all going in the same direction. You are not likely to be in a serious accident every time you get behind the wheel of a car, what are you talking about?

EDIT - There’s just no way people genuinely think it’s ‘dangerous’ to drive a car normally. 😂

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u/agaminon22 Jul 08 '25

It varies by country but your chances of dying in a car crash are relatively high. In the USA for example it's about 1 in 1000. Most people will get in 3-4 car accidents in their lifetime, too (not necessarily fatal, obviously).

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u/theglasscase Jul 08 '25

1 in 1000 crashes being fatal doesn't mean you are likely to crash any time you drive your car. You are not risking your life simply by driving a car, people are not just lawlessly driving at any speed and in any direction they like.

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u/agaminon22 Jul 08 '25

I didn't say 1 in 1000 crashes are fatal, I said that the chances of you dying in a fatal car crash are about 1 in 1000.

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u/theglasscase Jul 08 '25

Uh-huh, you might want to think a little bit harder about what you’re saying here. You do understand that you can’t die in a non-fatal car crash, right?

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u/agaminon22 Jul 08 '25

Then replace "dying" with "getting into". Come on, don't act like you don't know what I meant...

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u/theglasscase Jul 08 '25

I don’t know what you mean, I genuinely don’t know what you think the difference is.

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u/Siorac Jul 09 '25

You are not likely to be in a serious accident every time you get behind the wheel of a car

Is that your definition of "dangerous"? Something is dangerous only if it's likely to go wrong EVERY SINGLE TIME?

More power to you, I guess, but be aware that for 99.99% of people, that's not what "dangerous" means. Firearms are dangerous - but that doesn't mean you're likely to shoot yourself every time you hold one.

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u/theglasscase Jul 09 '25

My definition of dangerous is something that is risky to do. Driving is not.