How a 14,000-pound snowplow climbed on top of Avengers star Jeremy Renner, breaking 30 bones and damaging his lungs, is shown in disturbing animation and video.

 

The moment that star actor Jeremy Renner was crushed by his 14,000-pound snowplow on New Year’s Day near his Lake Tahoe home has been detailed in a new animation.

Renner talked about the horrifying ordeal and how he ended up in the hospital with 30 broken bones and a collapsed lung in his first interview since the near-fatal incident.

During his ABC News interview with Diane Sawyer, Renner was shown operating the 1988 Pistenbully snowcat while his nephew, Alex Fries, hooked a chain from the snowplow to a Ford Raptor they were attempting to move to the snow-cleared street. The disturbing animation and video shows how the 14,000 pound snowplow climbed on top of Renner, breaking 30 bones and damaging his lungs.

“I drove in the snowcat with the truck behind it to polish off the last 20-30 yards of the carport to get it onto the cleared region,” Renner enlightened Sawyer concerning his main goal to clean all the snow off of the carport paving the way to his home.

Fries unhooked the truck from the snowcat as Renner began to turn around on the icy sloped road as a disturbing animation and video show how a 14,000-pound snowplow climbed on top of the Avengers star, breaking 30 bones and causing damage to his lungs. The animation and video also show how Renner was injured by the snowplow, which also broke 30 bones.

Renner said, “I did turn it around, correct.” We’re on a paved area, but the cat kept sliding on the icy road because it was all ice.

Renner looked outside the cab, keeping one foot inside and the other on the snowcat’s wet steel rolling tracks, forgetting to set the parking brake because he was concerned that his nephew was too close to the plow.

“I wanted to see where my nephew is, I just happened to be the dummy standing on the dang track a little bit seeing if my nephew is there,” Renner says, pointing to the snowcat’s rolling tracks.

When driving, you shouldn’t be outside the vehicle. The “Avengers” star describes it as “a little bit like driving a car with your foot outside the car.” It was what it was, and I paid for it because I made a mistake.

The machine rolled over Renner’s entire body, starting from his feet and going up to his head.

“I can see my eye with my other eye, and I remember just seeing stars and a little tar line whatever in this eye,” Renner said pointing to his left eye.

The machine continued down the hill, with Fries still in the path of danger, he hopped into the truck but the snowcat caught him and pushed the truck into a 7-foot snowbank, bringing both the Ford and plow to a stop.

“I look out the window and I see half of the snow machine and then I just perfectly see him in a pool of blood coming from his head,” Fries says of seeing his uncle for the first time.

Not thinking, he ran to his uncle’s side but feared the worse had happened.

“He wasn’t responsive because when I ran up to him I didn’t think he was alive,” Fries recalls of the horrifying incident.

Renner was airlifted to a Reno-area hospital before undergoing multiple surgeries for his injuries.

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