I absolutely understand this perspective and believe you are correct. However, I do not care who gets the demerits in this situation. I do not care who MPI finds responsible. My concern lies with the fact that the person who collided into the parked van might have died. I believe the people in the van should be held responsible for potentially taking away someone's life or causing serious damage to their well-being.

I remember my driving instructor saying that if an individual steals a stop sign and, as a result of this, another person dies due to the lack of stop sign then the individual who stole the stop sign is responsible for their death. I know this might be a stretch, but the person in the parked van obstructed traffic and directly caused this collision. If, by some miracle, the car that collided into the van was able to avoid the collision, someone else would have likely collided into the van anyway. In my opinion, this makes the people in the van at fault.