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Liverpool star Diogo Jota dies in car accident

Update : 03 Jul 2025, 14:56

Liverpool star Diogo Jota has died at the age of 28 after his Lamborghini flew off a road in northern Spain - just two weeks after he married his childhood sweetheart.

The Portuguese forward was travelling in the supercar with his fellow footballer brother Andre, 26, who also died in the crash, reports the Daily Mail.

The Lamborghini's tyre is believed to have blown out while overtaking on the A-52 around 70 miles west of the historic city of Valladolid. The car came off the road, crashed and then burst into flames.

Jota had just married Rute Cardoso, the mother of his three children, and described himself as the luckiest man in the world in an interview released yesterday.

The crashed occurred on the A-52 in the province of Zamora. The road in Spain is a key route taken by drivers leaving northern Portugal.

Emergency services in the Castilla and Leon region confirmed the crash.

'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,' a statement read.

'1-1-2 notified the Zamora Traffic Police, the Zamora Provincial Council Fire Brigade, and the Sacyl Emergency Coordination Center (CCU) of this accident.

 

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