An eyewitness has delivered a contradictory account on the fatal auto crash that claimed the lives of Diogo Jota and his brother Andre Silva in Zamora, Spain, MySportDab reports.
Jota and Andre died after their ride careered off the A-52 highway and caught fire.
They were burnt to death before emergency services could intervene and were repatriated back to Portugal for a poignant burial.
Much of what has been known about the incident came from the Spanish authorities investigating the accident.
Their recent report claimed Diogo Jota was apparently the driver of the vehicle and must have oversped leading to the accident.
However, a recent report by an eyewitness Jose Azevedo has claimed otherwise. Azevedo, who claims to be driving the A-52 road every day via his heavy-duty truck claimed the car was not over-speeding as the Police report claims.
He rather blamed the structure and condition of the road for the accident, describing it as a ‘dark road.’
‘I filmed it, stopped, tried to help, but unfortunately, there was nothing I could do,’ he said in Portuguese. ‘I have a clear conscience.
”I know what I went through that night because I didn’t know who was inside. My condolences to the family.
”[The family] have my word that they were not speeding. I could see the make of the car, the colour of the car. I drive this road every day, Monday through Saturday, I know what road it is, and it’s worthless.
”It’s a dark road, and I could see the make and colour of the car, everything perfectly. Later on, unfortunately, that’s how it ended,” he said i Spanish [Watch Video On YouTube Here].
While Azevedo’s report offers a profoundly different narrative to Jota and his brother’s deaths, some Spanish outlets’ report seems to have lent credence to the 62-year-old’s narration.
According to La Opinion de Zamora, about 40 drivers complained of potholes in the A-52 highway to the Spanish transport ministry in 2024 alone and about 19 accidents were recorded on the road with about 29 deaths in 2023.
