Jeremy Renner it was three years since he almost died in a snowplow accident sharing a post of the vehicle that hit him.
Publication via their Instagram stories On Thursday, January 1, the 54-year-old actor posted a photo of the snow plow alongside a cheerful caption.
“Not today,” he avengers the star wrote, adding a wink emoji and a kiss emoji. He added: “Rain delay.”
Renner followed up the post with another Instagram story showing a photo of a boy on a path, surrounded by snow.
“Happy New Year. A new day”, the Dahmer star captioned the shot. “And new paths full of love and adventure.”
On New Year’s Day 2023, the actor was rushed to the hospital be seriously injured in the near-fatal accident that saw him crushed by a PistenBully, a snow removal vehicle weighing more than 14,330 pounds.
Renner was trying to save his little nephew Alex Fries of being beaten in the horrific incident that took place near his home in Nevada. As a result of the accident, Renner suffered more than 38 broken bones, including six broken ribs in 14 places, a broken tibia and a collapsed lung.
The hawk eye detailed star his brush with death in his memory My next breathwhich was published in April 2025.
“As I lay on the ice, my heart rate slowed, and right there, on that New Year’s Day, unknown to my daughter, my sisters, my friends, my father, my mother, I passed out,” Renner wrote in the book. “After about 30 minutes on the ice, breathing manually for that long, an effort similar to doing 10 or 20 push-ups per minute for half an hour … that’s when I died.”
He added: “I died, right there, in the driveway of my house.”
Speaking of the memories dwith an appearance in April 2025 The Jimmy Fallon ShowRenner admitted that he was initially hesitant to write about the harrowing accident in the book.
“I spent a year and it was pretty good. I was walking again. Then the idea of writing the book came and I was like, ‘Oh my God, do I have to relive this thing?’ It was quite a struggle,” Renner said.
Jeremy Renner admits he was a “terrible patient” while recovering from his near-fatal snowplow accident. The 54-year-old Avengers star recalled trying to get out of the hospital where he was admitted after the freak accident on January 1, 2023. Renner was crushed by a 14,000-pound snowplow at his home in Reno, Nevada, while trying to (…)
“But I quickly realized that it was important for me to get out of my own damned way. To relive it, to explain it, to acknowledge it in a different way, word for word, was quite healing for me,” he continued. “But it didn’t just happen to me either. It happened to my poor nephew, who was holding my arm and watching me bleed and all that kind of stuff. It’s healing for him. And for my mom, who had to get that phone call and drive 13 hours through a blizzard to get to me at the hospital. It was healing in so many different ways.”
The book wasn’t the first time Renner publicly recalled the details of the snowplow accident. He also spoke about the experience in several media interviews, including Men’s Health in July 2024.
“I remember all the ripples,” he said on the way out at the time. “I remember my head snapping on the thing and it just pressed down on me, it’s exactly what you’d think it would feel like. An immovable object and a crushing force, and something has to give. But thank God my skull didn’t quite give.”