The Tesla ignored blaring sirens and flashing lights when it drove directly into the path of an emergency response vehicle.

According to California Highway Patrol, a 41-year-old deputy from the Cabazon Station was responding to a call for service with emergency lights and sirens on just after 10 a.m., driving westbound on Cherry Valley Boulevard in his Ford Explorer patrol vehicle. That’s when a Tesla Model 3 made a left turn from Roberts Street onto Cherry Valley — into the deputy’s path. The deputy then slammed into the Tesla. The 21-year-old driver of the Tesla, identified by CHP as Gavin Hinkey, was pronounced dead at the scene.

It reads like a suicide. Although perhaps the driver, like so many of these Tesla crashes, was asleep.