FLORIDA: Lionel Messi narrowly escaped a car accident in Florida. A video of the incident has gone viral on social media.In the video Messi's car can be seen moving forward despite the red signal at the traffic light. At this time, the vehicles coming from the other side at high speed would have crashed into his car. Fortunately, other vehicles stopped abruptly and a major disaster was avoided.

A fan can be seen moving towards Messi's car while he was driving down the road. Fans speculate that the star footballer was distracted by his fan.

You haven’t posted the full video. Before this clip a fan was approaching messi’s car to take a pic. He obviously didn’t see the red light as he was probably distracted by than fan. Fans need to be careful n not approach him atleast while driving. Thankfully accident didnt happen pic.twitter.com/f7taiqyYRq

— Meenal (@mbu2617) July 14, 2023

The world champion is all set to join the American football club Inter Miami.Messi's first match in the Miami jersey will be against Cruz Azul on July 21.