Journalist, Dallas Morning News politics reporter, author Wayne Slater killed in car crash

[TexasTowelie]

AUSTIN — Retired Dallas Morning News Austin bureau chief and senior political writer Wayne Slater, who chronicled two Texas governors’ rise to national prominence and co-wrote two books about George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove, died Monday in an automobile accident in Williamson County. He was 74.

Slater died in a two-car accident that occurred at about 10:33 a.m. Monday at FM 487 and Chris Lane near Florence, said Sgt. Deon Cockrell of the Texas Department of Public Safety.

According to a written statement by Cockrell on Monday night, Slater was alone and driving his Mazda CX-3 subcompact SUV when he swerved into an oncoming Ford F-150 pickup truck. Its driver, also alone, took evasive action but to no avail, Cockrell said. Slater, a Florence resident, was pronounced dead at the scene. The other driver was taken to a local hospital and treated for minor injuries.

Slater personally liked, though he sparred with and oversaw tough coverage of, former Govs. Ann Richards, a Democrat, and George W. Bush, the scion of a dynastic Republican family who in the 1990s, it turned out, was on his way to the White House.

Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2021/12/20/journalist-dallas-morning-news-politics-reporter-author-wayne-slater-killed-in-car-crash/

Florence, Texas is in northwest Williamson County.

[tanyev]

1. Oh, that's too bad.

Sounds like he might have had a medical event that caused him to swerve.