Jeremy Renner recently remembered how a “small but monumental slip of the mind” led to the devastating snowplough accident.

Extracted from his upcoming memoir published in The Times of London Avis, where the 54-year-old American actor revealed how he and his nephew Alex worked to clear the snow outside his Lake Tahoe residence on New Year’s Day in 2023.

Renner, who ran his large snow cat, shared that his nephew was surrounded by the danger of being crushed by the vehicle while clearing the snow.

He remembered, “Before leaving the driver’s cab! – Apply parking brake,” says the manual.

However, the Oscar-nominated actor engaged neither the parking brake nor the disconnected steel tracks, and at that moment a small but monumental slip of the mind changed for my life for good.

“My feet lost its grip on the moving tracks and I never got to the cabin. I bent violently forward, out of control. In the split second, I was catapulted from the spinning metal tracks, arms flailing.

“There were terribly crushing sounds like 14,000 pounds of galvanized steel machines slowly, inexcusing, monotonous, earth over my body. It was a terrible soundtrack,” The Avengers Star noted.

Before the end, it is relevant to mention that as a result of this accident, Renner’s more than 38 bones broke, and he ended up receiving life-saving care first in a hospital in nearby Reno and later at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles.