It has emerged that the spot where Diogo Jota’s Lamborghini crashed, k1lling him and his brother last Thursday, almost k1lled a woman only eight days earlier.
Experts say the road is fraught with many ‘many faults’, making it a dangerous stretch of the highway, especially if travelled at high speed or at night.
An expert engineer, Mr Lopez Delgado, in comments to local paper La Opinion de Zamora, stated that apart from the blown out tyre blamed for the accident that claimed Diogo and his brother’s lives, there were other factors responsible for the accident.
Delgado referenced another accident in the same spot a week earlier in which a 60-year-old woman narrowly escaped being k!lled.
According to him, the accident that nearly claimed the life of the woman was so severe that she had to be cut free from the wreckage of her vehicle by firefighters.
Delgado said it might be attributed to coincidence, but that he was not a “big believer in coincidences”.
He said it had to be more than a coincidence for two vehicles to come off the road at the spot one week apart.
Recall that Liverpool superstar Jota and his footballer brother, Andre Silva, both lost their lives in a horrific accident on the A-52 near Zamora, by Spain’s north-west border with Portugal.
It is yet to be determined by the police how fast they believe the siblings were going in the Liverpool star’s £180,000 Lamborghini Huracan.
Delgado, who is president of the Spanish Association of Road Safety Auditors (ASEVI), believes the siblings would have been spared if they had been going at 55mph.
Citing the skid marks, he said it seemed the car was going very fast.
Sources in Cernadilla, inhabited by just over 100 people, called the A-52 highway ‘very dangerous’.
Locals also complained about another hazard on the road, the regular presence of wild animals, especially Iberian wolves and deer, which often cause collisions.
Diogo Jota had been travelling to the northern Spanish port city of Santander with Andre to catch a ferry to the UK and then proceed to Liverpool when the accident happened.
He had been advised not to travel by air following a lung surgery.
