Jeremy Renner has shared that one “tiny but monumental slip of the mind” caused his snow plough accident, in which he suffered multiple life-changing injuries.
In an extract from his forthcoming memoir published in The Times of London newspaper, the Hawkeye actor detailed how he was working with his nephew Alex to clear the snow from outside his Lake Tahoe home on New Year’s Day 2023. Renner had been driving in the cab of his large snowcat when he realised his nephew was in danger of being crushed by the vehicle.
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Renner writes:
“Before exiting the driver’s cab! — Apply parking brake,” the manual says. But I didn’t engage the parking brake, or disengage the steel tracks. In that moment — an innocent, critical, life-changing moment — that tiny but monumental slip of the mind would change the course of my life for ever.
“My feet lost their grip on the moving tracks, and I never made it to the cab. I lurched violently forward, out of control. In that split second I was catapulted off the spinning metal tracks, arms flailing. I arced over the front of the tracks, propelled forward, down on to the hard-packed ice, where my head hit the ground hard and instantly gashed open.
“There came terrible crunching sounds as 14,000lb of galvanised steel machinery slowly, inexorably, monotonously, ground over my body. It was a horrifying soundtrack.”
Renner goes on to detail the extent of his injuries, including breaking more than 38 bones in his body, and the life-saving care he received from paramedics, first in hospital in nearby Reno and later at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles.
After months of recovery, Renner returned to production on Season 3 of Mayor Of Kingstown in early January 2024. He also recently wrapped filming Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, the next installment of the Knives Out saga, alongside Daniel Craig, Josh O’Connor, Cailee Spaeny, Glenn Close and Andrew Scott.
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