Hull City’s training-ground routine was interrupted on Thursday morning after a player was involved in a single-car crash close to the club’s Cottingham base, only weeks after Sorba Thomas had escaped injury in a separate collision nearby.
Key takeaways
- A Mercedes overturned on Millhouse Woods Lane in Cottingham at about 8.30am on Thursday, 1 October 2026.
- Police and emergency services attended the incident, with no injuries reported.
- The identity of the Hull player involved has not been officially confirmed.
- Lucas Gourna-Douath has been suggested as the possible driver after previously appearing in an Instagram image with the car.
- The incident follows Sorba Thomas’s recent crash in the same area, from which he was unharmed.
Another difficult morning near the Hull training ground
The damaged Mercedes was photographed in a residential street close to Hull City’s training complex after the vehicle overturned. It is the second traffic incident involving a Hull player in the vicinity within a matter of weeks.
Thomas was involved in an earlier collision near the training ground but did not suffer any harm. Thursday’s crash also ended without injury, despite the more dramatic sight of the overturned vehicle.
There has been no confirmation of the player’s name. Reports have linked the car to midfielder Gourna-Douath, based on a social-media post in which he had been pictured alongside it, but that remains unverified.
Police confirm no injuries
Police said officers and emergency crews were called to a one-vehicle road traffic collision on Millhouse Woods Lane at around 8.30am on Thursday. Their statement confirmed that nobody was injured.
For Hull, it is an unwelcome repeat of a recent off-pitch scare around the training ground, though the important detail on both occasions is that the players involved came through without physical damage.
