A lot will depend on what your dash cam has recorded.
If you were not following at a safe distance behind the other vehicles that will count against you. Was it possible for you (as captured by dash cam) to have seen the other vehicle and parked van prior to impact. The law will say that as a careful and competence driver could you have avoided the collision.
From what you have said you were driving at 65 mph on a cold and possible wet road at night. A safe following distance would be at least 4 seconds. Without seeing the dash cam footage hard to tell but from information given seems likely you were following to close behind the other vehicle and this is the basis of the other drivers account.
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