Remember the system. You should always be able to safely stop within the visible distance. They couldn't, all they could muster was an avoid! Too fast for the conditions. End of.
Not sure too fast, just too narrow thru a corner giving limited view. I'd have no issue riding that pace but would be using much more up on the way in!
Utter rubbish, imagine your car had broken down, you were fixing a wheel and you told your family to stand on the side of the road for safety. Run over wife and kids and one squashed Bladders.
But you are forgetting one important factor: he has offered me out so he must be a riding God he knows me not and he is slow , but I kind a like his on line persona very very much