[2] In the early hours of Monday, March 15, 2010, Sam and his sound engineer, Owen Chimhare, died in a car crash while traveling back to Norton near Harare.
Their Tata pickup truck, driven by Chimhare, struck a bridge just before the Kuwadzana Extension off-ramp along the Harare-Norton road.
The vehicle veered off the road, rammed into the right side of the bridge's guard rails, and plunged into the river bank below.
Inspector Tigere Chigome, a national Traffic Police spokesman, explained in the news that the accident happened at 1:20 am.
Mtukudzi was identified as an ambassador by Luckmore Jalisi from SPW Zimbabwe due to his youthfulness as well as his focus and maturity in music.