A cold winter brings with it snow and safety issues. Some of the world's biggest star have fallen foul of the frost and been involved in serious accidents that have had life-changing consequences or worse. Marvel actor Jeremy Renner was recently hospitalized after being crushed in a snowplough accident at his home. These stars have all been injured in the snow...

At the start of 2023, Jeremy Renner - who plays Hawkeye in the MCU - was involved in a snowplough accident. The 52-year-old actor has returned home after suffering blunt chest trauma and orthopaedic injuries after being crushed by the vehicle on New Year's Day (01.01.23) at his home in the Reno area of Nevada. Renner was injured when he tried to remove a stranded family member's car from the snow near his home.

The Hollywood action icon was involved in a skiing accident 17 years ago. The 'Terminator' star tripped over one of his ski poles and broke his right femur while skiing in Sun Valley, Idaho, with his family on 23 December 2006. He was serving as the Governor of California at the time and underwent surgery a few days later when he returned to Los Angeles. At the time of his injury, the Sun Valley resort, popular with celebrities, had a short course called "Arnold's Run" in honour of the bodybuilder-turned-politician. The difficulty of the track is black diamond, but nothing Arnold couldn't overcome.

In March 1988, King Charles - then known as the Prince of Wales - travelled with friends to Klosters in Switzerland for a snow holiday. While skiing off-piste, the group was caught in an avalanche. Charles escaped the incident unharmed but his friend Hugh Lindsay died, and another member of the group, Patricia Palmer-Tomkinson, was seriously injured. In a 1994 documentary, Charles recalled when the avalanche hit the group, saying: "The next thing I heard was a voice shouting 'Jump!' This vast, roaring mound of snow in vast blocks came crashing down round us. I'd never seen anything so terrifying in my life. A staggering maelstrom.”

While the former model, businesswoman and ex-wife of Beatles star Paul McCartney was training for the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games on the Moelltaler Glacier in Austria, she hit a plastic pole that had frozen over. Heather - who, a year later, set the world record for the Disabled Launched Kilometre in the French resort of Vars - broke her shoulder blade, but seemed unfazed. She said at the time: "That's skiing."

Natasha - the eldest daughter of British actress Vanessa Redgrave - was spending a few days at the Mont Tremblant ski resort in Quebec with her eldest son Micheál. While taking a beginner's lesson, Natasha suffered a fall and took a blow to the head on the hard snow. The 45-year-old actress claimed she felt fine and returned to her room at the Quintessence Hotel. From there, she called her husband, fellow actor Liam Neeson, and told him what had happened as part of her day. Three hours later she suffered a severe headache and began to show signs of confusion and flown to Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. The 'Parent Trap' star died two days later from an epidural hematoma at the age of 45 on 18 March 2009.

Gaspard Ulliel - best known for his film like 'Hannibal, the Origin of Evil' and for winning a César, the French equivalent of the Oscar - was taking a few days of rest and enjoyment at La Rosière, a ski resort in Tarentaise Valley, located in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. When while skiing down one of the slopes on 18 January 2022, he collided with another skier at a junction. It is not known whether it was the collision or the fall, but the actor, who was not wearing a helmet and was about to premiere his Marvel series 'Moon Knight', suffered a severe blow to the head that left him unconscious in the snow. After the accident, he was taken by helicopter to a hospital in Grenoble, France, where he died on 19 January.

Schumacher's seven Formula 1 crowns made him a legend of the sport and he was known as a fearless driver. But since 29 December 2013, when he had a serious skiing accident in the French Alps, his legend became a mystery. The German sportsman was skiing in the Alpine resort of Méribel with his family when he went off-piste and hit his head on a rock. The impact was so severe that it shattered his helmet and caused severe head trauma, with intracranial haematomas and diffuse cerebral oedema. He was immediately taken by helicopter to a clinic in Moutiers, but after being stabilised he was transferred again, this time to a new medical centre in Grenoble, where he underwent a surgical procedure while in a coma. He remained there until June 2014, when the clinic reported that he had come out of the coma and was transferred to a hospital in Lausanne, Switzerland, to continue his recovery at home. Little is known about his current condition, but in the Netflix documentary 'Schumacher', his wife Corinna said: "Private is private,' as he always said. It is very important to me that he can continue to enjoy his private life as much as possible. Michael always protected us, and now we are protecting Michael."

Former California congressman Sonny Bono - the other half of pop duo Sonny and Cher - died on 5 January, 1998, while skiing at Heavenly Ski resort in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains, near the town of Reno, Nevada. Sonny was on vacation with his family when he suffered a fatal accident in the area. After skiing with his wife, son and daughter at the resort, he decided to spend the afternoon alone. However, he was reported missing when he did not return at the end of the day. Unfortunately, Sonny's body was found in the evening in a wooded area. He had crashed into a tree, causing a massive head injury that took his life.

Luciana Gimenez was on the ski slopes with her sons during a vacation in Aspen, Colorado, when she lost control and took a nasty tumble. Luciana - who has 23-year-old son Lucas with Rolling Stones frontman Sir Mick Jagger and 11-year-old son Lorenzo, with ex-husband Marcelo de Carvalho - feared she would lose her leg after breaking it in four places in January 2022.

Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau - the second son of Queen Beatrix and Prince Claus and brother of the current Netherlands monarch King William - was an atypical royal. Studious, with several university degrees and a great business career, he surprised the world by renouncing his dynastic rights to marry Mabel Wisse Smit. With no right to the throne, Johan Friso and his wife settled in London. A year after the wedding, Luana, the first-born child, was born, and in 2006, Zaria. Although Friso was an expert skier, on 17 February 2012 he was caught up in an avalanche and was trapped under the snow for 20 minutes. Rescuers reached him thanks to a device on his body that indicated his location. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation was performed for almost an hour. He was taken to Innsbruck University Hospital, where he was admitted in a coma. The royal had suffered severe brain damage and never woke again. A year later, on 12 August 2013, Prince Friso died.