RENO, Nev. – Actor Jeremy Renner is assisting a motorist who was stranded when he was injured over the weekend in a snow plow accident in the mountains on the edge of Reno, according to the city’s mayor.
Reno Mayor Hillary Schieve said the 51-year-old “AvengersThe star was trying to help a car that was stuck outside his house on a snowy mountainside on New Year’s Day when he was run over by his own Snowcat. TMZ reports that the tracked vehicle ran over his leg and he lost a lot of blood; a doctor next door was wearing a checkered belt. The crash left Renner in a critical but stable condition with chest and orthopedic injuries.
“He was helping someone stuck in the snow,” Schieve told the newspaper. Reno Gazette-Journal Monday night. She said that she and the actor were friends and that she was called about the accident shortly after it happened Sunday morning near Mt. The Rose Highway connects Reno to Lake Tahoe.
“He was always helping others,” she told the newspaper.
The Washoe County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement Sunday that deputies responded to reports of an injury in the Mt. Rose at around 9 a.m. Sunday before Renner was airlifted to a local hospital. A strong winter storm dumped more than 2 feet (0.6 meters) of snow in the area from Saturday night through Sunday morning.
The sheriff’s office said at the time that Renner was “the only party involved in the incident” and that the office’s large accident investigation team was “reviewing the circumstances of the incident.”
Police Chief Darin Balaam has scheduled a press conference “to clarify details regarding” the sheriff’s office’s response to the crash, the office said in a statement early Tuesday. .
A Renner journalist said in a statement Monday that he suffered chest injuries and orthopedic injuries and remains in critical but stable condition in the intensive care unit following surgery at Reno hospital. .
Renner plays Hawkeye, a sharpshooter member of the Avengers in Marvel’s vast film and television universe. He was twice nominated for an Academy Award for acting, receiving consecutive nods for “The Hurt Locker” and “The Town”. Renner’s portrayal of a bomb disposal expert in Iraq in 2009’s “The Hurt Locker” helped make him a household name.
2012’s “The Avengers” solidified him as part of Marvel’s grand storytelling ambitions, with his character appearing in several sequels and having his own series on Disney+, “Hawkeye.” .
