Police probing the deaths of Diogo Jota and his brother Andre are expected to give an update on the Lamborghini tragedy within days, MailOnline understands.
Spain’s Guardia Civil and officials working in local government in Zamora are calculating how fast the acid green £180,000 Lamborghini Huracan was going when it crashed in the early hours of Thursday morning.
Police admitted last week that they did not know which brother was driving at the time.
The tyre of the supercar, capable of going 200mph, is believed to have blown out while overtaking another vehicle on the A-52 at Cernadilla – just ten miles over the border from Portugal.
The provincial head of traffic in Zamora, Alfonso Ibáñez, is said to have been compiling crash data for the road where the brothers died. Six people have died on the region’s roads so far this year, compared to 11 in 2024.
Experts have been studying the road’s surface and layout as well as the barriers that the Liverpool star’s car crashed into in the early hours of the morning.
Local sources describe the A 52 as notoriously treacherous – pockmarked with potholes, broken lanes, recent roadworks, and even deer by the side of the road. A 60-year-old woman was seriously injured on the same road Jota died,
last Wednesday at around 11.30am when her car came off the dual carriageway.
The siblings, who were laid to rest in Porto on Saturday, were driving through northern Spain to catch an overnight ferry to the UK.
The acid green front of what appears to be the front of the Lamborghini Huracan lies at the side of the road where Diogo Jota and his brother died.
Police are investigating what led to the tragedy and will calculate what speed it was doing, how a tyre blew and any other factors
The acid green front of what appears to be the front of the Lamborghini Huracan lies at the side of the road where Diogo Jota and his brother died. Police are investigating what led to the tragedy and will calculate what speed it was doing, how a tyre blew and any other factors.
They were headed to Santander to catch a ferry to Britain after Diogo was advised not to fly following lung surgery, it was reported in his home country.
There are several vital unanswered questions surrounding the tragic crash, which killed Diogo and his younger brother Andre Silva, who was also a professional footballer.
Initial indications suggested that a puncture did cause the driver to lose control, said police. Although the standard tyres fitted to Lamborghinis are superb quality, and tyre can of course suffer a blowout.
The EVO Spyder’s Huracán stablemate, the ‘off road’ Sterrato, does boast special ‘run-flat’ tyres, which minimise the effects of a high-speed blowout, but the tyres, manufactured especially for the model by Bridgestone, are not fitted to the Spyder.
‘At this moment in time it is impossible to say at exactly what speed the car was going but that is something the Civil Guard investigators will be able to detail at least approximately in their final report from things like the skid marks,’ they said.
‘Everything points to the blowout of a tyre while it (the vehicle) was overtaking,’ the Civil Guard said in a statement.