Jose Azevedo also said today he grabbed a fire extinguisher and tried to help but there was “nothing” he could do to save him and his footballer brother Andre Silva.

He panned his mobile phone in his selfie video today identifying himself as an eye-witness to his name on his lorry tachograph, which matched the name on the tachograph on the HGV dashboard in the night-time footage of Jota’s burning supercar that ended up going viral.

Both sets of footage also show a slightly cracked windscreen which Mr Azevedo also offered up as proof he was telling the truth about seeing the crash.

The long rambling video he sent Portuguese media was starting to be published by TV stations in his homeland this evening following unconfirmed reports in Spain police investigators were still trying to track down witnesses to last Thursday’s horror accident on the A-52 near Zamora in which newly-married father-of-three Diogo and his younger sibling died.

The Civil Guard said yesterday in only their second statement since the crash everything was pointing to the Liverpool winger and Portuguese international driving the £180,000 Lamborghini Huracan - and possibly going at well above the 120kph (74mph) speed limit.