Super Bowl Champion Glenn Cadrez Recounts Saving Man from Fatal Car Crash

Former NFL linebacker Glenn Cadrez intervened to help pull one man from a fatal car crash in California.

The two-time Super Bowl champion told TMZ Sports he was driving on Interstate 15 in Temecula, California when he witnessed a head-on collision on Aug. 23. He pulled over and helped one motorist escape.

"By the time I turned around, the car was engulfed in flames," he said. "I mean biggest reddest flames, dark black smoke."

Four people were killed in the crash.

According to Laylan Connelly of the Orange County Register, a BMW M4 collided with a Nissan Sentra after it "veered to the left, crossed over the concrete median wall and continued across the southbound lanes into the slow lane."

Cadrez helped the BMW driver to safety. A woman in the front passenger seat and two teenagers seated in the back died at the scene. The driver of the Nissan died on the way to the hospital.

"The four deaths — I didn't even know, and at the time when I was pulling him out, I thought there were no casualties," Cadrez said. "I thought it was just an injury with him and the other guy."

"So it kinda hit a little harder the next day, and I hope he is OK. I have two kids, so it really kinda hit home for me, and I squeezed my kids a little tighter last night."

Cadrez spent 11 years in the NFL as a player across spells with the Denver Broncos, New York Jets and Kansas City Chiefs. He was part of the Broncos teams that lifted the Vince Lombardi Trophy in 1997 and 1998.