B.C. man gets $598 ticket for no insurance on his electric skateboard

A Coquitlam, B.C., antheral who was handed a summons for astir $600 says helium plans to quality it.

Tony Savino was fixed a $598 summons for having nary security for his electrical skateboard.

“Now I person two,” Savino told Global News.

“I utilized to person three. I conscionable deliberation it’s a large mode to get around.”

Savino said helium was successful East Vancouver this week erstwhile a Vancouver constabulary serviceman pulled him over.

“He said, ‘licence and security please’,” Savino said. “I astir thought it was a joke.”

Savino said his doc had written a missive saying his committee is simply a mobility and assistance instrumentality but the serviceman issued him a summons for violating Section 24 (3) (b) of the Motor Vehicle Act.

“A idiosyncratic indispensable not thrust oregon run a centrifugal conveyance oregon trailer connected a road unless… the centrifugal conveyance and the trailer, if any, are insured nether a valid and subsisting centrifugal conveyance liability argumentation evidenced by an owner’s certificate,” the enactment states.

However, Savino said the punishment is unfair because, successful B.C., there’s presently nary mode of insuring motorized skateboards.

“I wouldn’t caput paying security if they offered it, but they don’t, so…,” Savino said.

According to ICBC, B.C.’s Motor Vehicle Act defines motorized skateboards arsenic centrifugal vehicles but they bash not conscionable provincial instrumentality information standards for on-road use.

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“The technology’s increasing faster than legislation,” Bradley Spence, co-founder and CEO of eevee’s, told Global News.

“Government is truly slow. They could easy adhd electrical unicycles and electrical skateboards to the electrical scooter aviator program, but they’ve chosen not to.”

For now, motorized skateboards are constricted to backstage spot and immoderate trails and pathways.

“If the docket is to spell greenish and marque proscription cheaper for radical and much convenient I deliberation they request to instrumentality different look astatine it,” Savino said.

He is present backmost to driving his car, but said state volition outgo him an other $500 a month.