Why was rory annoyed

Im watching season one, and i am in the part where Rory and jess get into a car accident and there's a point where she's very annoyed at people when they mention it was jess's fault for the accident, which is true, he was driving. my question is, do you think she was annoyed because she aleady started liking jess by then and wanted to clean his image, or was it because she genuinely thinks people shield her too much?