Jeremy Renner marked three years since he almost died in a snow plow accident by sharing a post of the vehicle that ran him over.
Posting via his Instagram Stories on Thursday, January 1, the actor, 54, uploaded a photo of the snow plow alongside a lighthearted caption.
“Not today,” the Avengers star wrote, adding a winking emoji as well as a kiss emoji. He added, “Rain delay.”
Renner followed up the tongue-in-cheek post with another Instagram Story that featured a photo of a child on a path, surrounded by snow.
“Happy New Year. A New day,” the Dahmer star captioned the shot. “And new pathways filled with Love and adventure.”
On New Year’s Day in 2023, the actor was rushed to hospital after being 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 attempting to save his young nephew Alex Fries from being struck 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 Hawkeye star detailed his brush with death in his memoir My Next Breath, which was released 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 just got tired,” Renner wrote in the book. “After about 30 minutes on the ice, of breathing manually for so long, an effort akin to doing 10 or 20 push-ups per minute for half an hour … that’s when I died.”
He added, “I died, right there on the driveway to my house.”
Speaking about the memoir during an April 2025 appearance on The Jimmy Fallon Show, Renner admitted he was initially hesitant to write about the harrowing accident in the book.
“I went through a year and I was doing pretty good. I was walking again. Then the idea of writing the book came around and I was like, ‘Oh, God, I got to relive this thing?’ It was quite the struggle,” Renner said.
Jeremy Renner admits he was a “terrible patient” while recovering from his near-fatal snowplow accident. The Avengers star, 54, recalled trying to break out of the hospital he was admitted to following 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 realized quickly, it was important for me to get out of my own damn way. To relive it, to recount it, to own it in a different way, word by word, was quite healing for me,” he continued. “But also, it didn’t just happen to me. It happened to my poor nephew, who was holding my arm and watching me bleed out and all that sort of stuff. It’s healing for him. And for my mother, who had to get that phone call and drive 13 hours through a snowstorm to get to me in the hospital. It was healing in a lot of different ways.”
The book wasn’t the first time Renner recalled details of the snowplow accident publicly. He also opened up about the experience in several media interviews including Men’s Health in July 2024.
“I remember every undulation,” he told the outlet at the time. “I remember my head cracking on the thing and it just pressing on me — it’s exactly like you think it would feel. An immovable object and a crushing force, and something’s gotta give. But thank God my skull didn’t fully give.”
