NEW YORK (AP) -- Harvey Langi went three panic-filled hours without knowing if his wife was alive or dead.
The car they were sitting in on Oct. 13, 2017, was rear-ended at a stoplight in Foxborough, Massachusetts, and instantly crumpled into a pile of twisted metal and broken glass.
Langi, then a New England Patriots linebacker, and his wife Cassidy were rescued from the wreckage and transported to separate hospitals, each with serious injuries. The physical pain was one thing. The mental anguish of fearing for his wife was unbearable.
''That, personally, just ruined me because you just don't know any information,'' recalled Langi, now with the New York Jets.