Jeremy Renner’s Nephew Recalls Snowplow Accident in New On-Scene Footage: ‘It Started Coming at Me … Full Force’ (Video)
thewrap.comrecovery since New Year’s Day, with many saying it’s a miracle he survived.“Right where his blood is at [in the snow], that’s right where it all happened,” Fries continued. “He slipped … he tried to jump on [the snowplow], into the thing, and it took him under.”Renner slipped on tracks on the road after trying to talk to his nephew, all during the effort to get his pickup truck unstuck from a snow bank.
Renner told Diane Sawyer about his experience operating the Sno-cat to tow the truck. His 27-year-old nephew disconnected the chain joining the two vehicles, and the Sno-cat started to slide on the ice, with Renner putting a foot out of the machine to look for his nephew.“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,” Renner said. “But it is what it was.
And it’s my mistake, and I paid for it.”After losing his footing, Renner fell out of the plow, and got run over after he tried to jump back in to set the parking break.“Eight ribs broken in 14 places.
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