Mom fined for towing son on his skateboard

The Elgin County Ontario Provincial Police don’t come across the sight of a mother pulling her 13-year-old son riding his skateboard with the family automobile every day.

But that’s what police came across in Central Elgin just southeast of St. Thomas on Sunday, Sept. 4 when they were contacted about a motorist pulling a youth behind a motor vehicle along Yarmouth Centre Road south of Southdale Line just after 8 a.m., Elgin OPP Constable Adam Crewdson said.

“He was holding onto the back bumper of the vehicle,” Const. Crewdson replied with asked by the Aylmer Express how the boy and his skateboard were attached to his mother’s vehicle. “The driver told police that she was only towing her son at 10 kilometres an hour so he could see what it would be like.”

He said the officer at the scene issued the mother a provincial offences notice, a $110 ticket, for “permitting attachment to vehicle contrary to section 160 of the Highway Traffic Act.”

The boy, who wasn’t injured, also received a warning from police for not wearing a helmet.