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A new animation has detailed the moment actor Jeremy Renner was crushed by his 14,000-pound snowplow near his Lake Tahoe home on New Year’s Day.
In his first interview since the near-fatal incident, Renner recalled the horrifying ordeal and how he was hospitalized with 30 broken bones and a collapsed lung.
The simulation, which was seen for the first time during his ABC News interview with Diane Sawyer, shows Renner operating the 1988 Pistenbully snowcat, as his nephew, Alex Fries, hooks a chain from the snowplow to a Ford Raptor they were attempting to move to the snow-cleared street.
“I led in the snowcat with the truck behind it to finish off the last 20-30 yards of the driveway to get it onto the paved area,” Renner told Sawyer about his mission to clear all the snow from the driveway leading up to the house.
Once parked on the street, Fries unhooked the truck from the snowcat, as Renner began to turn around on the icy sloped road.
“I did turn it around, correct,” Renner confirmed. “The cat kept sliding on the icy road because we’re on the paved area but it’s all ice and it kept sliding.”
Concerned that his nephew was too close to the plow, Renner looked outside the cab, keeping one foot inside while placing his other foot on the snowcat’s wet steel rolling tracks — and forgetting to set the parking brake.
