Jeremy Renner honored the third anniversary of his near-fatal snow plow accident with a cheeky Instagram post and a deeply personal reflection on the life-saving moment that changed everything — and the child he risked his life to protect.
Jeremy Renner commemorated the third anniversary of the life-altering snow plow accident that nearly killed him by sharing a lighthearted photo of the vehicle that struck him — and a winking emoji that said it all. “Not today,” he captioned the Instagram Story, adding “Rain delay.”
The Avengers star followed up with a second image: a child on a snowy path, captioned “Happy New Year. A New day. And new pathways filled with Love and adventure.” The post was a quiet but powerful reminder of the trauma he survived — and the love he carries forward.
On January 1, 2023, Renner was crushed by a 14,330-pound PistenBully snow plow while trying to shield his young nephew Alex Fries from being struck. The accident left him with more than 38 broken bones, including six fractured ribs, a broken tibia, and a collapsed lung — injuries that nearly ended his life.
In his memoir My Next Breath, released in April 2025, Renner described the moment of death he experienced on the icy driveway. “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,” he wrote. “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.”
Renner’s journey to recovery was grueling — and his decision to write the memoir was initially met with resistance. “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,” he admitted on The Jimmy Fallon Show in April 2025.
“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 accident wasn’t the first time Renner had spoken publicly about the incident. In a July 2024 interview with Men’s Health, he recalled the visceral sensation of impact: “I remember every undulation,” he said. “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.”
Renner’s anniversary post wasn’t just a celebration — it was a testament to survival. The “rain delay” joke was a nod to the moment he was nearly erased from the world — and the fact that he’s still here, still fighting, still loving, still living.
For fans, Renner’s anniversary post was more than a social media update — it was a reminder of the resilience that defines him. He didn’t just survive the snow plow; he turned trauma into triumph — and used his platform to honor the child who inspired his fight to live.
“Jeremy Renner isn’t just an actor — he’s a survivor,” one fan wrote. “And he’s teaching us all how to live with courage, even when the world tries to crush you.”
Renner’s story is one of the most powerful in modern Hollywood — not because of his roles in Avengers or Hawkeye, but because of the life he saved — and the life he continues to live, one breath at a time.
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