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Jeremy Renner bodycam footage shows critical moment from terrifying snowplough accident

Harrowing bodycam footage from the scene of Jeremy Renner's snowplough crush shows the actor being surrounded by a team of medics as they worked to save his life.

The video was taken just moments after Jeremy was ran over by his 14,330lb Snowcat on New Year's Day, suffering blunt chest trauma and orthopaedic injuries.

The police bodycam clip shows the Marvel star on the ground, with five medics working to stabilise him.

One person on the scene said: "It was horrible. I thought he was going to die, man. I'm holding him and his colour is just going."

Jeremey heroically risked his life to save his nephew, Alexander Fries, from being hit by the vehicle.

In the police footage, Alexander 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.

"That's when he tried to jump back in there. Right where his blood is at, that's right where it all happened," Alexander told police officers.

Jeremy's nephew explained how the actor had tried to jump on the snowplough in the hopes of saving his family member.

"He tried to jump on it, into the thing, and it took him under."

Jeremy was airlifted to hospital following the incident and broke more than 30 bones, with sources close to the star claiming he "almost died".

A 911 call released from the accident heard his neighbour saying Jeremy had been "crushed" by a snowplough, with the actor crying out in pain.

In the audio, which was released in January, Jeremy can be heard moaning in pain, as the neighbour explained his injuries, including damage to his ribs, chest and head.

The unidentified neighbour said Jeremy lost "a lot of blood" in the accident.

The star was told to "lay still" while the emergency operator asked the neighbour questions.

Jeremy recently appeared on the Jimmy Kimmel Live show where he admitted he remembers "all of it" up until he was transported to a nearby hospital via helicopter in the treacherous conditions.

The actor suffered 30 broken bones (Instagram)

He told Jimmy: "'Once I got into the helicopter to the hospital, that's when they jammed some sort of emergency knife or whatever they do in your chest - I don't know, that's when I was like, I got to go to sleep."

He opened up on how he personally knew the firefighters who were first to the scene to try to save them.

Jeremy revealed he heard them talk about "doing the best they could" in what sounded like a confession they weren't able to save him.

Jeremy continued: "Yes, some people thought I was dead and was going to die.

"I'm like, 'No, man.' I'm trying to get out of the hospital as soon as I was in it. I'm like, 'I'm out of here.'"

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