A man died after crashing his Tesla into a tree on a busy Walnut Creek thoroughfare early Saturday, according to the city’s police department.
The driver, who has not been identified, was heading east down Ygnacio Valley Road and struck a tree just west of North Main Street at 2:40 a.m., police said. Nobody else was in the car.
Officers do not yet know whether the Tesla was in self-driving mode at the time of the impact, Walnut Creek Police Lt. Holley Connors told the Chronicle. She and other investigators are asking the public for more details about the crash, which occurred near a wide, multidirectional intersection a couple blocks from the Walnut Creek BART Station…