Jeremy Renner Spends Memorial Day Weekend Near Site of Snowplow Accident

Jeremy Renner recently revealed that he is spending Memorial Day weekend near the site where his tragic snowplow accident occurred. On Saturday, Renner shared a video of driving through Lake Tahoe, where he was spending time with “family.” Notably, Lake Tahoe is not far from his home in Washoe County, Nevada, which is where he suffered a terrible incident with a snowplow back in January.

Renner is an actor and singer who is best known for his portrayal of Clint “Hawkeye” Barton in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He’s also had notable roles in multiple films from the Mission: Impossible franchise, as well as critically acclaimed movies like The Hurt Locker, The Town, and Wind River. More recently, he appears in the Paramount+ drama Mayor of Kingstown, which began its second season in January. On Monday, Jan. 2, Renner was involved in a snowplow accident at his Nevada home. He had to be transported to a hospital by helicopter. Once there, he was taken into emergency surgery.

Earlier this year, while speaking to Diane Sawyer in a interview — per ET Canada — Renner shared his experiences, as did his neighbors Rich Kovach and Barb Fletcher. “He had some blood coming out of his ears, his nose for sure. And then his eye, it looked like it had been pushed out,” recalled Kovach, who was the one to call 911 when Renner was injured.

Fletcher added, “It was a horrible sound to listen to someone, just literally watching somebody die in front of you, and you feel so helpless,” as portions of the phone call played. “This is the sound of someone that was dying,” Kovach then said. Fletcher offered, “At one point, he just got [a] clammy feel to him, he turned this gray-green colour and I feel in my heart that I feel like we lost him for a second. He closed his eyes. And I just tried to keep him awake… I really feel he did pass away for a couple of seconds. I really do.”

Kovach also noted the “amount of blood” Renner was losing concerned him, adding, “And then he was – he was just in such pain. And the sounds that were coming out of him – and there was so much blood in the snow. And then when I looked at his head it appeared to me to be cracked wide open. And I could see white, I don’t know if that was his skull … maybe it was just my imagination but that’s what I thought I saw.” Fletcher echoed his statements, saying that she witnessed “a lot of blood coming from [Renner’s] head and just grabbed one of the towels… It was still folded and just applied pressure. I could tell he was really struggling to breathe.”