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Yet it's been known since shortly after the accident, that there was NO hit and run.

The media use "hit-and-run" and "leaving the scene of the accident" interchangeably.

I don't know about NJ, but most states have laws against "leaving the scene of the accident." Someone pulling unsafely into moving traffic and causing an accident, even if they are not in the collision itself, are still charged with causing the accident. If they leave the scene, they are also charged with "leaving the scene." Any NJ law enforcement people out there care to respond?

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Leaving the scene of an accident is illegal in New Jersey. Even if you are just a witness, you are supposed to stop and wait for authorities.

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Someone pulling unsafely into moving traffic and causing an accident, even if they are not in the collision itself, are still charged with causing the accident

Yes, but that doesn't justify the media's characterizing the incident as "hit and run."

I've been suspicious of this whole thing from the git-go. It smells of deflecting the blame --away from Corzine (who, we now know after much waffling, was too special to wear a seat belts); and away from the state police driver, who was probably speeding way over the 65mph they're admitting to now.

Did Corzine ask his driver to speed? After all, he didn't want to be late to his photo-op with the Rutgers girls and Imus!

We who live in NJ are used to our Democrat pols speeding in their motorcades, and damn the little people whom they inconvenience.

A few years ago, Al Gore had a long stretch of the Garden State Parkway shut down so his motorcade could speed safely to a Jon BonJovi concert.