Cricket Umpire Rudi Koertzen Dies in Car Crash
most popular faces in world cricket, South African umpire Rudi Koertzen, and three other people were killed in a head-on collision, a local news report said.
The crash occurred on Tuesday morning in an area called Riversdale in South Africa.
The 73-year-old Koertzen, a resident of Despatch in Nelson Mandela Bay, was on his way back home from Cape Town after a golf weekend.
His son, Rudi Koertzen Jr told Algoa FM News that his father died on impact.
“He went on a golf tournament with some of his friend, and they were expected to come back on Monday,
“He went on a golf tournament with some of his friend, and they were expected to come back on Monday,
but it seems they decided to play another round of golf", Koertzen Jr said.