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.
Headline:
Billionaire Democrat, with emergency lights flashing, causing numerous abrupt lane changes on a highway, risking the lives of the peons he governs so that he could attend a race baiting photo op is almost killed while disregarding seat belt laws he enforces on said peons.
The truth is Priceless.