The extreme sports fanatic son of Foxtons estate agency billionaire Jon Hunt has been banned from driving for six months — after being caught crossing the road on a hoverboard.
Max Hunt, a former British Supersport motorcyclist who has recently completed a 5,000-mile off-road rally challenge in South America, was stopped by a police officer near Green Park in March while on his Airwheel hoverboard.
Hunt, 34, said he was travelling from his office in Kensington High Street to meet a friend in Knightsbridge, and had been trying to overtake pedestrians at a junction.
But Hunt, who started riding motorbikes when he was aged just 10 and was British under-13 water-ski champion, was forced to admit to the officer that he was not insured to ride the board.
He told Wimbledon magistrates he believed the hoverboard, a Christmas present from his parents-in-law, was “just a toy”. He added: “They are quite fun things to move around on.”
But district judge James Henderson said Hunt, whose Twitter handle is @TheMadMax37, could have spent 30 seconds online looking up the law.
He said: “He seemed to take the view that because other people were using them on the road he assumed he didn’t need insurance. A moment of research on the internet would have revealed he did.”
Hunt, from Notting Hill, already had nine points on his driving licence for two speeding offences, and was given a further six.
He was banned from driving any vehicle on the roads for six months and fined £500 after admitting one count of “using a motor vehicle on a road without third party insurance”.
Hunt comes from a family of fast car obsessives.
His father Jon, who made his fortune from founding the Foxtons chain in the Eighties and selling it for £390 million just before the financial crash, has a collection of vintage supercars and is creating a subterranean museum to house them at his Kensington Palace Gardens mansion.
Last year he was banned from driving after being caught speeding four times in eight months.
Max’s brother Harry came 10th in last year’s Dakar car rally.
