'Avengers' star Jeremy Renner says he broke 30 bones in snowplow accident - CNN

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“Avengers” prima Jeremy Renner says helium broke much than 30 bones successful the New Year’s Day snowplow mishap that sent him to the infirmary for much than 2 weeks.

Renner, who plays superhero archer Hawkeye successful the Marvel movie and TV “Universe,” posted a photograph connected Instagram with a caption that read:

“Morning workouts, resolutions each changed this peculiar caller years …. Spawned from calamity for my full family, and rapidly focused into uniting actionable emotion ❤️ I privation to convey EVERYONE for their messages and thoughtfulness for my household and I …. Much emotion and appreciation to you all. These 30 positive breached bones volition mend , turn stronger, conscionable similar the emotion and enslaved with household and friends deepens . Love and blessings to you all.”

Renner turned 52 successful the hospital. He was injured by a snowplow portion clearing a driveway adjacent his Nevada home, leaving him with “blunt thorax trauma and orthopedic injuries,” his publicist antecedently told CNN.

He underwent 2 surgeries and was treated successful the intensive attraction unit.

Monday night, the “Mayor of Kingstown” prima replied to a Twitter post from the show, writing, “Outside my encephalon fog successful recovery, I was precise excited to ticker occurrence 201 with my household astatine home.”

A 911 telephone log obtained by CNN says Renner was “completely crushed nether a ample snowcat (vehicle)” and that helium had “extreme (difficulty) breathing.” It goes connected to work that, “the close broadside of his thorax is collapsed – precocious torso is crushed.”

Renner’s snowcat, an engine-powered instrumentality utilized to wide snow, started to rotation distant portion Renner was disconnected the driver’s seat, Washoe County Sheriff Darin Balaam antecedently said.