James McClean, the Wrexham midfielder, was involved in a car accident on his way to training on Wednesday morning.

A club statement confirmed that no other vehicles were involved in the incident, and that the player was subsequently able to report to the club, where he was due to undergo precautionary medical checks.

Photographs, reputedly of McClean’s damaged black Audi, were shared on social media on Wednesday morning. A police statement confirmed the report of “a single vehicle road traffic collision on the A534 in Wrexham, near to Wrexham Golf Club” shortly before 9am.

“Officers and colleagues from the North Wales Fire and Rescue Service attended the incident, which had blocked the road until the vehicle was recovered shortly before 10am – no serious injuries were reported from the scene,” said the statement.

Wrexham will host Birmingham City in a League One fixture on Thursday and it is unclear whether McClean will be available for selection.

It comes in a week when McClean has made headlines after he called the town of Shrewsbury a “cesspit full of inbreds” following Wrexham’s 2-1 defeat by Shrewsbury Town last week.

Footage showed objects being thrown from the stands in the direction of McClean during the match last Thursday, with McClean then reacting on Instagram before deleting the remarks about Shrewsbury. Phil Parkinson, Wrexham manager, has this week called on the English Football League to do more to protect McClean from repeated fan abuse.

“What are the EFL doing about the level of abuse Jimmy gets on a week-to-week basis and for me it’s nowhere near enough,” said Parkinson. “I feel for James because the level of abuse he gets is something I’ve never witnessed for a player. He’s a great lad and it’s human nature that will spill over with him.

“But he’s a tough character and he’s focusing on what he’s got to do on the pitch. And we’re working with him to block everything out and concentrate on bringing to the team what he has done ever since he’s been here, which is great honesty, incredible drive and determination for the group and real leadership qualities.

“I know on Thursday night our supporters are going to be right behind Jimmy because he deserves that and because he’s been a brilliant signing for us.”

McClean, a former Wigan Athletic, Stoke City, West Bromwich Albion and Sunderland winger, has endured regular abuse following his long-time refusal to wear a poppy during Remembrance memorials.

McClean is from Londonderry, where British soldiers shot at unarmed civilians in the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre, killing 14. “If the poppy’s sole purpose was to honour World War One and Two then I would have no issue wearing it, but that’s not the case,” McClean has said.

“The poppy represents for me an entirely different meaning to what it does for others. I would never force my beliefs on others, I’m not naive or stupid enough to expect the matter to be reciprocated, especially as the poppy is forced now on everyone in the UK and god forbid someone doesn’t wear it, the abuse they have to endure.”