Article: Plastic wrap barrier causes motorcycle crash

Plastic wrap barrier causes motorcycle crash

By DARRYL ENRIQUEZ denriquez@journalsentinel.com, Journal Sentinel

Saturday, July 17, 2004

Town of Waukesha -- Motorcyclist Daniel Buckel was within 10 feet when he saw the potential disaster stretched across a dark and foggy rural road just ahead.

Disbelief turned to fear, then anger, as Buckel's 2-year-old motorcycle hit a barrier of kitchen-variety plastic wrap that was wound thickly from traffic pole to traffic pole on opposite sides of Guthrie Road, south of Highway I.

The clear plastic trap, which was 3 to 4 feet above the two-lane road south of Waukesha, sent both Buckel and his passenger, girlfriend Theresa Brzykcy, into a bloody slide ...

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