I think you are right. I appears that Corzine’s car was exceeding the speed limit (I guess he wanted to get to meet Imus.) I have no doubt that the red car probably merged from the shoulder onto the road without allowing for the speed of the cars on the parkway...they go incredibly too fast...but from all accounts, his merging onto the road forced ANOTHER car into the lane of Corzine’s car, whose driver then avoided the accident by hitting the guard rail rather than the car. It would be hard to prove that the car that went into Corzine’s lane had no other choice than to do so...who’s to say that he or she didn’t overreact and cause the accident.
Accident investigators are expected to pull data from the crash data retrieval system of Corzine’s SUV. The device, similar to the “black boxes” recovered after airplane crashes, could tell how fast the truck was traveling at the time of the accident, and contain other clues as to how the crash occurred.
“Anything we can get our hands on, we will look at anything,” said Sgt. Jeanne Hengemuhle, spokeswoman for the New Jersey State Police.
http://blog.nj.com/ledgerupdates/corzine_crash/
What was he doing on the shoulder anyway? Sounds to me like your typical NJ idiot who's impatient and decides to try to pass by using the right shoulder.