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A second witness has come forward to refute Spanish police claims Liverpool star Diogo Jota appeared to be speeding when he crashed his Lamborghini supercar.

Traffic cops in Zamora near Spain’s north-west border with Portugal said on Tuesday everything was pointing to the dad-of-three driving and possibly doing well above the 120kph (74mph) speed limit after revealing they believed the acid green £180,000 Lamborghini Huracan had suffered a tyre blowout.

On Wednesday, a Portuguese lorry driver claiming to be the trucker who filmed Jota’s car in flames on the A-52 in Cernadilla near Zamora insisted the vehicle passed him “super calmly” and “without speeding.” Jose Azevedo also said in a selfie video he grabbed a fire extinguisher and tried to help but there was “nothing” he could do to save the Liverpool winger and his footballer brother Andre Silva who also died in last Thursday’s crash.

Today a trucker named locally as Jose Aleixo Duarte told Portuguese tabloid Correio da Manha he was overtaken by Jota’s car five minutes before the accident and it was going at a “moderate speed.” He also slammed the road conditions where the fatal crash occurred, saying it was in a “bad state.”

Mr Azevedo became the first person to come forward as an eye-witness yesterday and identify himself as the author of footage that went viral last week showing Diogo Jota’s car in flames.

He said in a daytime selfie video shot from his lorry cab justifying his decision to speak out.

“There’s a video on the Internet, on TV, of Diogo Jota’s car on fire at night,” Mr Azevedo said.

They passed me super calmly, without speeding, without speeding.”

Making no mention of going to the police after witnessing the crash, Mr Azevedo said: “I didn't even know who was in the Lamborghini that day.

In only their second official statement since last week’s horror crash, the Civil Guard said on Tuesday: “The expert report is still being worked on and finalised.

“Among other things traffic police from the Zamora branch of the Civil Guard are studying the tread marked by one of the wheels of the vehicle.

Everything is also pointing to a possible high excess of speed over the permitted speed on that stretch of the motorway.

Diogo Jota and his brother died near Zamora, Spain(Image: PA)

“All the tests carried out for the moment point to the driver of the crash vehicle being Diogo Jota.