Police confirm what caused Diogo Jota car crash on motorway that killed him and brother

Liverpool footballer Diogo Jota was killed in a car accident in northwest Spain in the early hours of Thursday morning, leaving the footballing world in shock. According to local reports, the Lamborghini he was travelling in with his brother Andre, who also died in the crash, spun off the road and caught fire.

One of the car's tyre blew out while overtaking another vehicle on the A-52 around 70 miles west of Valladolid, causing it to veer off the road, as per Spanish outlet Efe. The incident occurred at around 12.40am.

Firefighters extinguished the blaze, which spread to surrounding vegetation, and collaborated with emergency medical services and the Civil Guard. Medical services on the scene could only confirm the deaths of the two occupants of the vehicle.

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Jota, 28, had just married Rute Cardoso, the mother of his three children, and described himself as the luckiest man in the world to be her husband.

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