In Nightcrawler Louis Bloom sabotages the van of Joe Loder and he has a very bad car crash.
When Louis films him being taken away, Joe is in a pretty bad shape. In my professional opinion it looked like he had a punctured lung and other severe injuries.
Did we ever find out what happened to Joe? Did he survive?
The script just describes him as
LOU filming JOE being carried by ... a god-awful mess ...
The synopses say...
Lou and Rick arrive in time for Lou to film Loder being wheeled away in a gurney, choking on his own blood.
Lou sabotages Joe's van; when it crashes, Joe is severely injured and Lou records the aftermath
