Diogo Jota dies: Which car was Liverpool star driving during Spain car crash?

Liverpool forward Diogo Jota, 28, tragically died in a car crash in Spain, just weeks after his wedding.

Liverpool and Portugal forward Diogo Jota has sadly lost his life at just 28 years old after a horrific car crash in northern Spain, just two weeks after he married his longtime partner, Rute Cardoso.

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Which car was Diogo Jota driving during the ghastly crash?

Jota was behind the wheel of a Lamborghini at the time of the crash. Reports suggest the high-performance supercar suffered a tyre blowout while overtaking on the A-52 motorway, near the town of Cernadilla in Zamora province, not far from the Portuguese border.

Travelling with him was his younger brother, Andre Silva, 26, a professional footballer for FC Penafiel. Both brothers tragically died in the accident.

Several local news outlets reported the Lamborghini veered off the road, flipped, and caught fire in the early hours of Thursday morning. Emergency crews rushed to the scene, but it was already too late to save either of the men.

“The 1-1-2 Castilla y León operations room received several calls reporting a vehicle accident at Km. 65 of the A-52, in the municipality of Cernadilla, Zamora. A car was reported to have been involved in an accident and the vehicle was on fire,” an official statement read.

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