Journalist, Dallas Morning News politics reporter, author Wayne Slater killed in car crash
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.
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Florence, Texas is in northwest Williamson County.