Jeremy Renner Shares Update on Snow Plow Incident Three Years Later

Jeremy Renner commemorated the three-year anniversary of his snow plow accident by sharing a post featuring the vehicle that nearly took his life.

On Thursday, January 1, he took to Instagram Stories to upload a photo of the snow plow, paired with a lighthearted caption.

“Not today,” the Avengers star quipped, including a winking emoji and a kiss emoji. He added, “Rain delay.”

Renner followed this playful post with an Instagram Story that showed a child on a snow-covered path.

“Happy New Year. A New day,” the Dahmer star wrote alongside the image. “And new pathways filled with Love and adventure.”

On January 1, 2023, the actor was rushed to the hospital after sustaining severe injuries from the tragic accident involving a PistenBully, a snow-removal machine weighing over 14,330 pounds.

Renner was trying to save his young nephew Alex Fries from being hit during the horrifying incident that occurred near his home in Nevada. The accident left him with more than 38 broken bones, including six broken ribs in 14 places, a broken tibia, and a collapsed lung.

The Hawkeye star detailed his near-fatal experience in his memoir My Next Breath, released in April 2025.

“As I lay on the ice, my heart rate slowed, and at that moment, on New Year’s Day, unbeknownst to my daughter, my sisters, my friends, my father, and my mother, I simply got tired,” Renner recounted in the book. “After about 30 minutes on the ice, it felt like I was doing 10 or 20 push-ups per minute … that’s when I died.”

He added, “I died, right there on the driveway to my house.”

During an April 2025 appearance on The Jimmy Fallon Show, Renner discussed his memoir and admitted he was initially reluctant to write about the traumatic event.

“I had been doing well for a year, able to walk again. Then, the thought of writing the book came up, and I was like, ‘Oh, do I really have to relive this?’ It was challenging,” he said.

“But I quickly realized it was essential for me to face it head-on. Reliving it and recounting it word by word was quite healing for me,” he continued. “However, it wasn’t just my experience. It impacted my poor nephew, who was holding my arm and watching me suffer. It was healing for him too, as well as for my mother, who received that phone call and drove 13 hours through a snowstorm to reach me in the hospital. It was a healing process on many levels.”

This memoir wasn’t the only time Renner shared details about the snowplow accident; he also spoke about it in various media interviews, including Men’s Health in July 2024.

“I remember every single detail,” he told the publication. “I remember my head hitting the thing, and it just pressing down on me—it felt just as you’d imagine. An immovable object meeting a crushing force, and something’s got to give. But thankfully, my skull held up.”