Wilcox Health hosts free bicycle safety day for Kauai keiki
Keiki at Wilcox Medical Center will get free helmets, decorate them and ride a skills course during a July 18 bike safety day in Līhue.
Wilcox Health will host a free Bicycle Safety Day Friday, July 18, from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. in the back parking lot of Wilcox Medical Center in Līhue, near the Same Day Surgery entrance, with AlohaCare and Kauai Path. Pre-registration is optional, but keiki who arrive on site will sign in at a registration table and receive a passport stamped as they move from station to station.
The day is built around hands-on learning instead of a lecture. Children will be fitted for free helmets, decorate the helmets, and then wear them on bike skills enhancement courses laid out in the medical center parking area. A drawing for a free bicycle will add a prize incentive, while hundreds of multi-use helmets will be given away while supplies last.
Kauai Path's mission is to make walking and bicycling travel ways commonplace in neighborhoods, and Ke Ala Hele Makalae, the 7.6-mile multi-use coastal path on Kauai’s East Side, is its clearest example. The nonprofit includes Wilcox’s keiki bike and skate safety day among the community events it uses to engage residents.
Wilcox marked the 10th annual Keiki Bike & Skateboard Safety Day in 2025, when hundreds of keiki came through helmet-fitting booths staffed by Wilcox physicians and medical students, decorated their free helmets with stickers and markers, and rode bike and skateboard skills courses while also getting concussion prevention education. In 2024, hundreds of children and families attended, and Mayor Derek S.K. Kawakami made a special announcement about a plan to make roads safer for everyone on the island.
About 200 children attended in 2023, when 25 brand-new bicycles were given away, and more than 300 participants showed up in 2022 after a two-year COVID-19 absence.
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