Man has car insurance cancelled because he wasn’t wearing a helmet while skateboarding

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A 25-year-old Halifax man says he found out the hard way that skateboarding without a helmet can also affect car insurance.

Pat Harland got a call from his auto insurance company — TD Insurance Meloche Monnex — on Thursday. He thought he was going to get a break on his insurance because he hasn’t had a claim in his five years with the company.

Instead, TD Insurance Meloche Monnex told Harland they’re dropping him as a client.

“I got these tickets because I was skateboarding at the Commons in the designated skateboarding area without a helmet,” he told CBC News on Thursday.

In the past three years, Harland has gotten two tickets for not wearing a helmet during skateboarding. He also got a third ticket for not wearing a seatbelt. Click below for full story -