Jeremy Renner Details “Tiny But Monumental Slip Of Mind” That Caused Life-Changing Snow Plough Accident

“Before exiting the driver’s cab! — Apply parking brake,” he says. But I didn’t engage the parking brake, or disengage the steel tracks. In that innocent, critical, life-changing moment — that tiny but monumental slip of the mind would change the course of my life forever.

“My feet lost their grip on the moving tracks, and I never made it to the cab. I lurched violently forward, out of control. In that split second I was catapulted off the spinning metal tracks, arms flailing. I arced over the front of the tracks, propelled forward, down on to the hard-packed ice, where my head hit the ground hard and instantly gashed open.

“There came terrible crunching sounds as 14,000lb of galvanised steel machinery slowly, inexorably, monotonously, ground over my body. It was a horrifying soundtrack.”