--- description: Armstrong was driving home after a night of partying in Aspen title: Lance Armstrong Cited in Hit-and-Run of Parked Cars image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd091f7d925f6bb89/69877d70e53aba6fa74d7626/lance-armstrong.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Sports](/section/sports/) ## Sports Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Athletes](/tag/athletes/) ## Athletes Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Lance Armstrong Cited in Hit-and-Run of Parked Cars by [Molly Geary / Sports Illustrated](/author/sports-illustrated/) ## Molly Geary / Sports Illustrated Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 3, 2015 7:48 PM CUT  Lance Armstrong attends Aspen Art Museum 2013 ArtCrush Summer Benefit on Aug. 2, 2013 in Aspen, Colorado. Lance Armstrong attends Aspen Art Museum 2013 ArtCrush Summer Benefit on Aug. 2, 2013 in Aspen, Colorado.Leigh Vogel—Getty Images/WireImage by [Molly Geary / Sports Illustrated](/author/sports-illustrated/) ## Molly Geary / Sports Illustrated Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 3, 2015 7:48 PM CUT Police say that cyclist Lance Armstrong hit two parked cars on Dec. 28 but agreed to let his girlfriend, Anna Hansen, take the blame, according [to the Associated Press](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/bf22cf3e3cb54ea59bf93ec2a11485e2/police-lance-armstrong-hit-parked-cars-blamed-girlfriend "undefined"). According to police, Armstrong was driving home after a night of partying in Aspen when his SUV hit the cars. Hansen told police that she was the one driving, but later admitted that she was lying and that the two had decided to let her take the blame to avoid national attention on Armstrong. Police then cited Armstrong for the incident. Armstrong did not respond to a request for immediate comment by the AP. Armstrong, 43, was stripped of his record seven Tour de France titles and banned for life by the United States Anti-Doping Agency in August 2012 after it was found that he had taken performance-enhancing drugs. _This_ [_article_](http://www.si.com/more-sports/2015/02/03/lance-armstrong-hit-and-run-girlfriend-anna-hansen "undefined") _originally appeared on_ [_SI.com_](http://www.si.com "undefined")_._ ### Lights, Camera, Infraction: 12 Memorable Celebrity Mugshots  Justin Bieber Miami Dade County Jail/AP  Bruno Mars WireImage/Getty Images  Paris Hilton Los Angeles Sheriff's Department/Getty Images  Robert Downey Jr. Culver City Police Department/Getty Images  Frank Sinatra Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images  Amanda Bynes Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office/WireImage/Getty Images  Kid Rock DeKalb County Sheriff's Office/Getty Images  Kiefer Sutherland Glendale City Police Department/Getty Images  Nicole Richie Glendale Police Department/Getty Images  Mel Gibson Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department/Getty Images  James Brown Aiken County Sheriff's Office/Getty Images  Lindsay Lohan Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department/Getty Images ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3694235/lance-armstrong-hit-and-run/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3694235/lance-armstrong-hit-and-run/"},"headline":"Lance Armstrong Cited in Hit-and-Run of Parked Cars","datePublished":"2015-02-03T19:48:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:05:52.422Z","description":"Armstrong was driving home after a night of partying in Aspen","url":"https://time.com/3694235/lance-armstrong-hit-and-run/","keywords":["Athletes","Crime","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd091f7d925f6bb89/69877d70e53aba6fa74d7626/lance-armstrong.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Molly Geary / Sports Illustrated"}],"articleSection":"Sports","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd091f7d925f6bb89/69877d70e53aba6fa74d7626/lance-armstrong.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Lance Armstrong attends Aspen Art Museum 2013 ArtCrush Summer Benefit on Aug. 2, 2013 in Aspen, Colorado.","caption":"Lance Armstrong attends Aspen Art Museum 2013 ArtCrush Summer Benefit on Aug. 2, 2013 in Aspen, Colorado.","creditText":"Leigh Vogel—Getty Images/WireImage","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/sports/","name":"Sports"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/athletes/","name":"Athletes"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3694235/lance-armstrong-hit-and-run/","name":"Lance Armstrong Cited in Hit-and-Run of Parked Cars"}}]}] ```