Schools Nationwide Promote Bike Safety
Safe Kids Wichita Area is hosting a bicycle safety event for parents and children of Riverside Leadership Magnet Elementary School to promote biking to school as a safe and fun way to travel and raise awareness about important bike safety information.
Students and their parents will leave the Wichita Art Museum, 1400 Museum Blvd., at 8 a.m. Wednesday, May 4, and bike to Riverside Leadership Magnet Elementary School, 1001 Porter St.
Event participants will include:
- Via Christi Health
- Safe Kids Wichita Area
- Bell Sports
- Via Christi
- Bike Walk Wichita
- Health & Wellness Coalition
- Wichita Public Schools
- Wichita Police Department
- Wichita Fire Department
- Sedgwick County EMS
- Safe Kids Wichita Area
Nearly 250,000 kids ages 19 and under were seen in emergency rooms for bike-related injuries in 2014. But many serious injuries can be prevented by simply wearing a helmet.
Safe Kids is teaming up with local communities, Bell Sports and other partners to help families learn simple things they can do to protect children while biking.
For more information, visit www.safekids.org
