In full recovery after being run over by a snow groomer on January 1, 2023, Jeremy Renner was seriously injured. TMZ gives more details on his condition and the accident.
[Mis à jour le 6 janvier 2023 à 16h52] Jeremy Renner is still recovering in intensive care after the serious accident he suffered on January 1, 2023. The actor from avengers was run over by a 6-ton snow groomer outside his Nevada home near Reno while clearing the driveway to help his loved ones. TMZ tells us more details about the injuries suffered by the 52-year-old actor, based on the transcript of the emergency call: the actor was conscious but was bleeding profusely after being “completely crushed” by the snow groomer, having “great difficulty” in breathing. He would be injured in the leg but also at the level of the upper torso which was “crushed”.
According to his representatives, the actor has had two operations and suffers from blunt trauma to the chest and orthopedic injuries. He is nevertheless “awake, he speaks and his morale is good”, had previously indicated his spokesperson, adding: “He remains in intensive care, in a critical but stable condition.” Wednesday, January 4, the actor had already given his news on Instagram, a first since his accident. “I’m too beat up to write”, he said in the caption of a photo of him on his hospital bed, thanking his fans for their support in this ordeal: “I send love to you all, Thanks for your kind words.”
Jeremy Renner was involved in an accident on January 1, 2023, outside his Nevada residence in the Mt. Rose Tahoe area, 40 km from Reno. The 52-year-old actor was plowing the access to the road, after a severe storm that had occurred the day before, for members of his family, shortly before 9 a.m. According to the Washoe County Sheriff who spoke to CNN, the comedian used a 6-ton snow groomer to perform the maneuver. During the operation, he would have left the vehicle to speak to a relative, and the machine would have slipped. Jeremy Renner would then have tried to reach the driver’s seat before “disappearing”. “He [a été] found later in the middle of the road, the groomer continued to move forward and ran over him. ” The tabloid TMZ specifies that a neighbor, a doctor, would have put a tourniquet on him before the arrival of help. The investigation is still The preferred track is that of mechanical failure.
Darin Balaam, the Washoe County Sheriff, spoke at a press conference on Tuesday, January 3, to give some information on the investigation opened into the conditions of the accident. The first results of the investigation have established that the facts are a “tragic accident”. Analyzes have also shown that the actor had not used drugs or alcohol before his accident.
A mechanical failure?
The investigation is continuing to find out if Jeremy Renner’s “snowcat” has malfunctioned. It was also seized at 8 p.m. Sunday evening by the police. According to the sources consulted by TMZ, the machine should not have knocked over Jeremy Renner, as it has many security features. Recall, however, that the police had previously told Deadline that Jeremy Renner “was the only party involved in the incident”. The investigation must therefore determine what exactly happened. Did Jeremy Renner make a mistake while handling his snowmobile? Did the Snowcat security system fail? Did something else change the situation? According to the sheriff, the approximately six-tonne PistenBully snow groomer began to roll automatically, the actor being injured while “trying to get back to the driver’s seat”.
A neighboring doctor could have quickly put a tourniquet on the comedian, thus probably limiting the damage while the help arrives on the spot, according to TMZ. Law enforcement reportedly “coordinated with the Truckee Meadows Valley Fire Protection District and the Area Emergency Medical Service (REMSA) to arrange transportation for Jeremy Renner.” the Reno Gazette-Journal reports that the area where the incident occurred was hit by a winter storm on New Year’s Eve. Storm which would have notably caused power cuts. The newspaper indicates that 35,000 households living in several counties located in northern Nevada were thus left without electricity.
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Born January 7, 1971 in California, Jeremy Renner is the eldest of a family of seven children. Jeremy Renner discovered a passion for comedy during his high school years. He then decided to make it his job, and started in San Francisco playing in theaters, then he moved to Los Angeles where he obtained a few roles on stage alongside his main job as a makeup artist.
By dint of perseverance, he arrived at the cinema in 1995 in the comedy “Total alarm”, then he made several appearances in television series such as “Drôle de chance” and “Traque sur Internet”.
It was in 2002 that Jeremy Renner’s career really took off with the horror film “Dahmer”, in which he played a serial killer, which allowed him to get noticed by critics. From then on, his career was launched, and he starred alongside Samuel Lee Jackson and Colin Farrell in the film “SWAT, elite unit” in 2003. In 2005, he appeared in no less than five films including “The Josey Aymes Affair” and “Neo Ned” in which he plays the leading role and which earned him the prize for best actor at the Palm Beach International Festival.
Jeremy Renner plays roles from year to year, mainly in action films, and becomes one of Hollywood’s essential actors. He plays among others in “28 weeks later” in 2008, “Minesweeper” in 2009 for which he will receive numerous awards, “The Town” by Ben Affleck in 2010 and “Mission impossible: ghost protocol” in 2011, “Avengers” in 2012, and “Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters” in 2013. Essential figure of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, he has played the character of Hawkeye in several films (and especially the Avengers franchise) since 2011. He even has a mini-series dedicated to his character available on Disney++.
If he started in the cinema in 1995, Jeremy Renner’s career really exploded when he landed the role of Hawkeye for several Marvel films. He can be seen playing the archer for the first time in the film Thor, in 2011. He reinterpreted the role of Clint Barton several times: in avengers in 2012, in Captain America: The Winter Soldier in 2014, in Avengers: Age of Ultron in 2015, in Captain America: Civil War in 2016, in Avengers: Endgame in 2019, and in the series Hawkeye and What If…? available on Disney+ since 2021.
Jeremy Renner married Canadian model Sonni Pacheco in 2014. They had had a child together the previous year, a little girl named Ava Berlin, in March 2013. The couple divorced in 2015, Sonni Pacheco citing “irreconcilable differences” to justify their separation. The actor has since been very discreet about his private life.