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Newly released video footage shows the tense moments following actor Jeremy Renner’s horrifying snow plough accident in January that left the actor with 30 broken bones.
Harrowing video from the bloody scene captured a team of medics’ desperate bid to save the Marvel star after his 6500kg Snowcat vehicle ran him over on New Year’s Day.
Renner was left in critical condition causing him to suffer extensive injuries as a result of the incident which happened near Lake Tahoe in the state of Nevada.
The Avengers actor was using his snow plough to clear a path out of his home after the area had been slammed by a massive snowstorm, reported the New York Post.
The storm had left over 35,000 people without power in the area.
The police bodycam footage, from the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office, shows the situation just moments after the horror accident.
It depicts a team of five medics battled to save the actor, who suffered blunt chest trauma and orthopaedic injuries.
“It was horrible. I thought he was going to die, man. I’m holding him and his colour is just going,” said one person at the scene.
Renner’s accident occurred moments after he heroically risked his life to save his nephew, Alexander Fries, from the path of the snow plough.
In police bodycam footage, Mr Fries explained what happened to his uncle.
“He went up and turned around, got out to tell me something and then that’s when it started coming at me, like, full force,” he told officers.
“That’s when he tried to jump back in there. Right where his blood is at, that’s right where it all happened.”
“He tried to jump on it, into the thing, and it took him under,” Mr Fries added.
An emergency call from the accident was recently released, which heard Renner’s neighbour telling emergency services that the actor had been “crushed” by the snow plough.
On the phone call, the frantic man asked for the emergency crew’s arrival time as he said Renner’s “shallow” breaths were “getting shorter” and that he had started to “drift off” into sleep.
“Stay awake,” he told Renner, who was said to be wrapped in blankets and “conscious” but in “a lot of pain”.
Renner ended up losing a significant amount of blood, and underwent surgeries and received around-the-clock care from medics after he was flown to Renown Regional Medical Centre in Reno, Nevada.
His neighbour, who happened to be a doctor, initially applied a tourniquet to his leg to stop the bleeding.
Renner came home from the hospital in January and has been recovering since.
The actor did his first on-screen interview since the incident last month, speaking to US ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer.
He told Sawyer that he refuses to be “haunted” by the memory of the harrowing accident that nearly took his life.
“I shifted the narrative of it being victimised or making a mistake or anything else,” the two-time Oscar nominee said.
“I refuse to be f**king haunted by that memory that way.”
He also revealed in the interview that he was writing his “last words” to his family while in the hospital.
“I’m writing down notes on my phone. Last words to my family,” he told Sawyer while holding back tears.
This story appeared in the New York Post and is reproduced with permission.