Welcome to the Premier League's most dangerous road: After TWO Hull City stars crash on their way to training in a matter of weeks, Daily Mail Sport's man takes a trip down quiet residential road himself

Welcome to the Premier League’s most dangerous road.That might sound like the intro to a Channel 5 documentary, but it is where we are: Millhouse Woods Lane, a stone’s throw from Hull City’s training ground, where two players have flipped their cars and somehow walked away without a scratch – to their bodies at least.In the space of a month, Sorba Thomas and Lucas Gourna-Douath have ended up head over heels in the same spot in their expensive sports cars.Can that be a coincidence? I made the three-hour journey to Cottingham, the pleasant suburb of Hull, to find out.Honesty hour: I questioned whether a 272-mile round trip to look at a road would be worth it. Spoiler alert: it was!So here I am, standing on a quiet road about a 15-minute drive from the MKM Stadium and the city of Hull, getting dirty looks from the locals who are all wondering the same thing: 'Who is this idiot with a selfie stick?'.Immediately after turning on to the road, I couldn't help but chuckle. Surely this can’t be the place where two cars have been flipped on their side, can it?After all, this is an A-road lined with parked cars down one side, meaning drivers heading towards the training ground must give way or venture into the wrong lane with caution.The speed limit was 30mph but, as my driving instructor used to say, it is an absolute maximum, not a word of advice on how fast to travel.Heeding those words of wisdom, we travelled down at approximately 8mph, which felt about right given the lack of space and the ominous, hefty kerb on the right-hand side. Such caution was appropriate even despite the fact the car we used for this assignment could probably be bought at least ten times over for the money Hull’s players had splurged on their fancy 4x4 vehicles.Sorba Thomas and Lucas Gourna-Douath both flipped their cars outside Hull's training ground Gourna-Douath's car is seen after the crash close to the Premier League club's training groundMy working theory on the cause of the mystery incidents is this: drivers are forced to pull into the right-hand lane but don't realise how little space they have and end up clipping the kerb. Doing this at any kind of significant speed could easily lead to the car ending up on its back and the drivers’ feet facing the sky. This is a deceptively dangerous road where you wouldn't want to exceed 20mph.After our driving test, I decided to retrace the players’ movements on foot, dodging a supermarket delivery driver who was forced to mount the kerb. Another reminder this road is not exactly designed for the larger vehicles. It really is easy to see how these incidents happened.Lib Dem Councillor Phil Redshaw agrees with our theory that the 30mph speed limit is excessive. ‘Whatever the cause, given the fact that both vehicles overturned on to the pavement, a reduction of the speed limit to 10mph would not appear unreasonable,’ he told Daily Mail Sport.Redshaw has requested an urgent safety review of the road and added: ‘We can’t just write it off as two unfortunate incidents.’Though our investigation was somewhat light-hearted, there is undoubtedly a serious matter at hand here.Thomas and Gourna-Douath are both incredibly fortunate to emerge unscathed, even if the latter did post a picture of his flipped car on Instagram with the joke: ‘Can’t park there mate’. Three weeks ago Thomas was involved in a crash that saw his car flip onto its roof Players are being educated on the matter. Shaun Whiter, a former non-league player, has just been invited to go into the 72 English Football League clubs to give talks on how to be safe behind the wheel. Whiter had both legs amputated following a road traffic accident.‘I was a non-league footballer, the night before pre-season I was involved in a road traffic accident in which the driver fled the scene,’ Whiter explains.‘I lost six pints of blood but was saved by the ambulance team that helped me come back round. I was meant to be in a coma for a week but came out in four hours, as you can imagine you look down at a bedsheet with half of you missing.‘You think you’re going to kick a football around the next day but all of a sudden that all is taken away from you. It was hard to get over that physically but of course mentally. There is a potential spiral of drink, drugs and suicide from the impact of this.‘I now have prosthetics at a cost of about £250,000. That is the ripple effect of what these accidents could cause. I started seeing headlines of “footballer…”, “footballer…”, “footballer…”. Football rallied round me but I would see the ripple effect of what it can cause.’ Gourna-Douath poses for a photograph with the same car he later crashed Luckily, both incidents in Cottingham ended with more damage to the cars than the players – although one local told Daily Mail Sport that a dark blue Mini Cooper had also been damaged in one of the incidents.‘The lads are clearly in a rush to get to training which speaks volumes,’ said local Terry Pearson. ‘However, as a local road user I'd say they should leave the flipping for opponents in games.’Perhaps that will be the message from manager Sergej Jakirovic when his team safely reconvene after the international break.