Jeremy Renner reveals 'tiny but monumental' snowplow mistake that nearly killed him

Marvel star has revealed the 'tiny but monumental' error that almost saw him crushed to death under a huge snowplough.

The Avengers actor, 54, was with 30 broken bones, and a pierced liver following the crash on New Years Day 2023. He has spent years recovering after he was run over by a 14,330 pound machine trying to help move his nephew's truck before attempting to rescue his relative.

outside his home in Lake Tahoe when he reacted quickly to save Alexander Fries when he got into trouble. The action hero has a soon-to-be-released memoir which details the near-fatal accident and his fight to return to the screen after nearly losing his life.

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In the book, he explained the errors made and how he escaped death. He wrote: "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."

Jeremy, who has returned to work and recently filmed Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, went on: "There came terrible crunching sounds as 14,000lb of galvanised steel machinery slowly, inexorably, monotonously, ground over my body. It was a horrifying soundtrack."

The actor has previously recalled the horrifying moment in an emotional interview, where he shares his nephew saved his life. Jeremy had been using his plough to try to help his nephew Alexander Fries pull his car out of the snow when something suddenly went very wrong.

The actor jumped out of the plough and forgot to put on the emergency brake. The plough started barreling towards his nephew and Renner is believed to have tried to get back into it while it was moving in in an effort to bring it to a halt, but

“I just happened to be the dummy standing on the dang track a little bit, seeing if my nephew was there. You shouldn’t be outside the vehicle when you’re operating it, you know what I mean? It’s like driving a car with one foot out of the car,” he told ABC interviewer Diane Sawyer.

“But it is what it was. And it’s my mistake, and I paid for it.” Jeremy attempted to jump back into the cab at which point he was ran over.

“That’s when I screamed, by the way, when ,” he said. “‘Not today, motherf****r!’ is what I screamed. Sorry for the language.”

He also revealed he was "awake through every moment" of the snow plough crush, with a recording of the 911 call made following the accident set to be shown in the programme. The actor has since said .

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