[h=1]Police: Lance Armstrong hit parked cars, blamed girlfriend[/h] By SADIE GURMAN, Associated Press Published: <time class="entry-date published" datetime="2015-02-03T13:40:28+00:00">February 3, 2015, 1:40 pm</time> Updated: <time class="updated" datetime="2015-02-03T17:41:16+00:00">February 3, 2015, 5:41 pm</time>
ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong hit two parked cars after a night of partying in Aspen but agreed to let his longtime girlfriend take the blame to avoid national attention, police reports show.
Aspen police cited Armstrong with failing to report an accident and speeding weeks after the Dec. 28 accident, but only after his girlfriend, Anna Hansen, admitted to lying for him.
Armstrong declined immediate comment, and his attorney, Pamela Mackey, didn’t immediately return a call.
Hansen initially told police she had been driving home from an Aspen Art Museum party when she lost control of Armstrong’s GMC Yukon on the icy roads, hitting the cars. She said she drove because “Lance had a little bit to drink,” according to the reports.
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<figcaption class="wp-caption-text">(via Aspen Police Department)</figcaption></figure> A man who had been renting one of the damaged cars told a police detective that Hansen came running up to his house in high heels, apologizing and promising to pay for the repairs.
“She said, ‘I’m Anna, we’re the Armstrongs, my husband’s Lance, he was just driving maybe too fast around the corner or something,'” the man told police, according to the reports.
He called 911 to report a hit-and-run. Hansen and Armstrong left the scene before police arrived.
Detectives later interviewed Hansen, who eventually told them Armstrong was driving, but they had both decided to let her take the blame.
“We’ve had our family name smeared over every paper in the world in the last couple of years and honestly, I’ve got teenagers, I just wanted to protect my family,” Hansen told police. “I thought, gosh, Anna Hansen hit some cars, it’s not going to show up in the papers, but Lance Armstrong hit some cars, it’s going to be a national story.”
Failure to report an accident is a misdemeanor punishable by up to 90 days in jail and a fine of between $150 and $300. Driving too fast for conditions is punishable by a fine between $15 and $100.
Hansen is not charged with a crime.
The Aspen Daily News first reported the citation.
Armstrong won the Tour de France every year from 1999-2005. Those titles were stripped after a massive report by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency detailed the use of performance enhancing drugs by Armstrong and his U.S. Postal Service teammates.
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Associated Press Writer Jim Vertuno in Austin contributed to this report.
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ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong hit two parked cars after a night of partying in Aspen but agreed to let his longtime girlfriend take the blame to avoid national attention, police reports show.
Aspen police cited Armstrong with failing to report an accident and speeding weeks after the Dec. 28 accident, but only after his girlfriend, Anna Hansen, admitted to lying for him.
Armstrong declined immediate comment, and his attorney, Pamela Mackey, didn’t immediately return a call.
Hansen initially told police she had been driving home from an Aspen Art Museum party when she lost control of Armstrong’s GMC Yukon on the icy roads, hitting the cars. She said she drove because “Lance had a little bit to drink,” according to the reports.
<figure id="attachment_90674" style="width: 229px;" class="wp-caption alignright">
<figcaption class="wp-caption-text">(via Aspen Police Department)</figcaption></figure> A man who had been renting one of the damaged cars told a police detective that Hansen came running up to his house in high heels, apologizing and promising to pay for the repairs.“She said, ‘I’m Anna, we’re the Armstrongs, my husband’s Lance, he was just driving maybe too fast around the corner or something,'” the man told police, according to the reports.
He called 911 to report a hit-and-run. Hansen and Armstrong left the scene before police arrived.
Detectives later interviewed Hansen, who eventually told them Armstrong was driving, but they had both decided to let her take the blame.
“We’ve had our family name smeared over every paper in the world in the last couple of years and honestly, I’ve got teenagers, I just wanted to protect my family,” Hansen told police. “I thought, gosh, Anna Hansen hit some cars, it’s not going to show up in the papers, but Lance Armstrong hit some cars, it’s going to be a national story.”
Failure to report an accident is a misdemeanor punishable by up to 90 days in jail and a fine of between $150 and $300. Driving too fast for conditions is punishable by a fine between $15 and $100.
Hansen is not charged with a crime.
The Aspen Daily News first reported the citation.
Armstrong won the Tour de France every year from 1999-2005. Those titles were stripped after a massive report by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency detailed the use of performance enhancing drugs by Armstrong and his U.S. Postal Service teammates.
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Associated Press Writer Jim Vertuno in Austin contributed to this report.
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Lance Armstrong is recovering from a bike crash that left him bloodied and sent him to the hospital.
The controversial former pro cyclist revealed his busted face and said he was riding one of his favorite mountain bike trails in Colorado, The Tom Blake trail, and crashed pretty hard, joking that “Well, sometimes you’re the hammer and sometimes you’re the nail!”
“Took quite the blow to the noggin’ so swung by the Aspen Valley Hospital to get my head checked,” Armstrong explained. He also said that in the past he probably would have blown off a trip to the hospital, but “not now.”
He doesn’t give specifics to any injuries, but the implication is Armstrong will be good to go with some rest, ice and probably a lot of Advil.
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