Canadia𒐪n rider Brett McCormick has confirmed he was pushed wi🐷de by reigning World Superbike champion Carlos Checa, triggering his heavy accident at Assen.

The 20🌜-year-old Effenbert-Liberty Ducati competitor has provided an update on his injuries form his hospital bed in the Netherlands in a radio interview with a Canadian br📖oadcaster.

McCormick - who was riding 𒉰in only his second World Superbike meeting -🔯 fell 11th position on the ninth lap of the second race and suffered spine, eye, hand and face injuries.

McCormick, who has received 'good news' on the extent of his injuries, told Canadian radio station CBC.ca: "When the race started it was still damp but we went out on slick tyres and half-way through the race the trac൩k was quite dry.

"I got passed by 💮another rider [Checa] in a really fast corner andღ didn't see him until the very last second," he recalled.

"He came up the inside of me right in th🔯e middle of the corner and I had to re-adjust the trajectory of my bike, pushing me a lot wider in the turn and I went off the track onto the astroturf at the side of the track, which was still really wet.

"[I don't remember] anything really, apart from getting pushed wide on the track and thinking about the best way to get back onto the track, but as soon as I left the track surface the bike went sideways and threw me off. I don't really remem꧋ber anything af♛ter that.

"I just remember coming to and re♕alising where I was in the medical centre."

On his injuri♚es, McCormick revealed he he sustained no permanent damage and is waiting to be given the all-clear to return home.

"Every day it's getting a little bit better for me. There's a lot of soreness set🌳ting in but I'm receiving a lot of good news regarding the injuries, so I'm just waiting around until I find out when I can fly home.

"I have no nerve damage and every parꦰt of my body is working correctly. I don't have any internal organ damage from the crash or any ner♏ve damage along my spine," he said.

"The C5 is broken in my neck, which is a pretty scary one to break, so I came away from it preꩲtty lucky; I've a few cracked vertebrae in my mid-back also, so I'm really sore and just trying to be careful - I'm not moving ꦺmuch right now."

McCormick has no reservations about returning to action as soon as he regains full fitness, claiming the crash was not of hi🍬s own making.

"It was a crash that wasn't my fault b🌜ecause I got pushed wide by another rider. I'd ride the bik🦂e today if I could."