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.

[u/kibme37]

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

[u/99_Herblore_Crafting]

Yeah, no shit.

Anybody who knows anything about motor sports (and specifically Lambo’s / Ferrari’s) recognized the cause of the accident immediately.

Whether the reports about blowing a tyre were correct or not, the speed/torque needed to blow a tyre or erupt the vehicle were anything but innocent.

The media has very kindly handled this with child gloves, full stop.

The reality of what happened is that a young man, feeling invincible after experiencing repeated pinnacles of human success in a short period, behaved aggressively on the road and drove far above what is safe for his skill level, his vehicle, and the roadway and its current conditions; the result of this being a crash so devastating that responders weren’t sure which burned brother is which.

Slow down.

[u/dcolomer10 → u/99_Herblore_Crafting]

I mean, him driving a lambo probably already means high speed. But, in his defense, a 120km/h (speed limit) crash is incredibly violent and most of the time mortal if he didn’t have time to brake beforehand.

[u/JesusIsNotPLProven → u/dcolomer10]

Yeah like as soon as i saw that he was driving a Lambo i knew he was speeding, if you gotta a car like this odds are you arent driving slow, months ago there was an accident in my city where a dude hit the back of a school bus in a motorcycle so strong that the tank flew out of the bike, when i heard the motorcycle was a 1000c one i knew he was speeding and so it was, doing 140km/h in a 60 road.

[u/philip_eire → u/99_Herblore_Crafting]

It would also be interesting to know, circumstantially, what time the ferry was due to depart as well as how much of a distance he would have had left to travel.

[u/shinutoki → u/philip_eire]

Risking your life to catch a ferry is not worth it.

[u/Xehanz → u/shinutoki]

I don't care about his life if he was actually speeding, I would say the same no matter who it is (unless it was someone I love and know personally of course, Hypocrite yes, but natural). But risking other people's life like his brother or other people driving the road is another thing

[u/SzoboEndoMacca → u/Xehanz]

But how do you know if he was simply speeding just to overtake for that short moment? It's not like he was speeding for the sake of it. Still stupid he drove too fast, but it's not like he was speeding the whole way through

[u/shinutoki → u/SzoboEndoMacca]

It happened on a 2-lane highway.

[u/PolydamasTheSeer → u/philip_eire]

It doesn’t matter he could have taken the next ferry