Beshir won the USCX series (Image credit: Bruce Buckley / USCX)

Young cyclo-cross star Tofik Beshir has left intensive care and is responsive after being involved in "a serious head-on incident with an automobile" while training on October 8, nearly two weeks ago.

Beshir, 19, was training near his Lees-McRae College in North Carolina when the incident happened, and he was airlifted to hospital in Tennessee where he remained unconscious and in ICU with "injuries consistent with brain shear trauma".

He was later moved to a hospital in Washington D.C. to receive ongoing care.

Lees-McRae cycling team coach Timothy Hall has been providing intermittent updates via Instagram about Beshir's condition, reporting last week that he had been able to move his hands, open his eyes, and react to speaking.

His team and family have decided not to share many specific medical details about the extent of Beshir's injuries, but in the latest update, Hall confirmed that he has left the ICU.

"In the past few days, Tofik has…