Jeremy Renner thanks fans from the ICU following snowplow accident as publicist says he's "making positive progress"
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Actor Jeremy Renner had been helping to dig out a car that a family member had gotten stuck in the snow when he was injured in a snowplow accident over the weekend, Washoe County Sheriff Darin Balaam said Tuesday. Renner was airlifted to a hospital and listed in critical but stable condition . According to Balaam, Renner was able to get the vehicle unstuck from the mountain road in the Reno, Nevada, area using his personal PistenBully snowplow. But when he got out to speak to the family member who had been driving, the snowplow started to roll. Renner then attempted to jump back into the driver's seat of the snowplow and was run over, Balaam said. The sheriff said they do not believe Renner was impaired at the time, and there is no indication of foul play. "We believe this is a tragic accident," Balaam said. Renner's publicist Sam Mast said that the actor is "making positive progress and is awake, talking