The warm weather is here, and the best place to enjoy the warmth is at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Thursday, May 25. Children and families are invited to take their bicycles and ride a few laps around the iconic NASCAR track in the annual Dale Jr. Foundation Safe Kids 301, presented by Speedway Children’s Charities.
The event is a bike safety celebration hosted by the Dartmouth Health Children’s Injury Prevention Center and Speedway Children’s Charities at NHMS.
The track will be open from 5 to 7 pm to everyone who loves to ride their bikes, and the event is free of charge to all participants. Vendors will line the track for families to enjoy several activities and exhibits that promote healthy habits. There will be helmet checks, bike-safety inspections with S&W Sports and free helmets for children who need one.
The Injury Prevention Center is part of Dartmouth Health’s Population Health Division and aims to keep children safe across New Hampshire. Injury Prevention operates many programs, including car seat and seat belt safety, initiatives to reduce falls and sports and recreation injuries. Additional information can be found at childrens.dartmouth-health.org/injury-prevention.
The Dale Jr. Foundation Safe Kids 301 is a free event. More information can be found at: www.speedwaycharities.org/events/#newhampshire.
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Dartmouth Health Children’s is the most comprehensive pediatric healthcare system in the region and the first integrative medicine children’s health system in the country. Dartmouth Health Children’s is fully integrated in Dartmouth Health and anchored in Lebanon, NH, by Dartmouth Health’s Golisano Children’s Hospital (also a member of the nationwide Golisano Children’s Alliance): home of the highest acuity neonatal intensive care unit and only pediatric intensive care unit in New Hampshire, along with the only adolescent medical-psychiatry unit in northern New England. Through a unique partnership with the state of New Hampshire at Hampstead Hospital, Dartmouth Health Children’s also provides the state’s only inpatient psychiatric care for children and adolescents. Dartmouth Health Children’s advances knowledge through groundbreaking research and education as the primary pediatric partner of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and delivers the best patient- and family-centered care for infants, children, and adolescents in a range of settings across New Hampshire and Vermont. Outpatient specialty visits and same-day surgery services are available at Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics in Manchester, NH, with pediatric primary care at nearly every Dartmouth Health member location.