Gwinnett real estate mogul, ex-commission chair hurt in car crash
Wayne Mason, the powerful real estate mogul whose name is synonymous with Gwinnett County politics and development, was in a weekend car crash, police said Monday.
Mason was driving east on Oak Road near Snellville when witnesses said a Cobalt driven by a Lithonia woman crossed the center line and collided head-on with Mason’s Mercedes-Benz S550 at the intersection with Franklin Road, police said.
Two other cars also rear-ended the wrecked vehicles and sustained minor damage, police said. Both the Mercedes and Cobalt were heavily damaged.
Mason, 74, and Annett Mason, 75, were taken to Gwinnett Medical Center for evaluation of minor injuries, police told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Tramika Skipper, the 26-year-old driver of the Cobalt, was taken to the same facility for treatment.
Mason, a former county commission chairman in the 1970s, was one of the power brokers who most recently made Georgia Gwinnett College a reality. The group used its political connections to steer more than $100 million from the legislature to the upstart school, which has grown to more than 10,000 students in nine years.
Mason is on the college foundation’s board.
