Good point. Surely you should always be able to stop in time...and no such thing as an accident, remember
Where there's blame , there's a claim. Councils fault- no road signs...." beware of falling rocks and motorcycles" .... Lucky not to get a direct hit.
Quite. His risk assessment was obviously not up to scratch. If it was he would have anticipated that very event and mitigated against the possibility by following a man, on foot, waving a red flag.