Kadance Fredericksen, Miss Teen Okaloosa, died after her car collided with a tractor-trailer in Florida, February 17.

According to Fox News , the Florida Highway Patrol said Kadance Fredericksen’s four-seater collided head-on with a tractor-trailer at around 1:30 p.m. Monday in Baker, Okaloosa County. Kadance died in the tragic accident. The tractor-trailer driver, 56, suffered minor injuries.

Miss Kadance Fredericksen.

The Miss Florida and Miss Teen Florida USA organizations announced the sad news on their official pages: “Our beauty pageant community has lost a beautiful soul who was truly a light in this world. She was ambitious, determined, kind, and a leader among her fellow beauty queens.”

Kadance Fredericksen has competed in several beauty pageants, winning Little Miss Northwest Florida in 2017 and being crowned Miss Teen Okaloosa County, Florida last year. She then represented the county in Miss Teen Florida.

Kadance Fredericksen performs in a beauty pageant

Kadance has used her beauty platform to raise money for charity. Since 2017, she founded Kada’s Promise, a charity initiative that has collected 12,000 teddy bears and blankets to distribute to abused or traumatized children in foster care. In 2019, the beauty told Wear News that she was inspired by her own experiences as a homeless and abused child. Kadance was later adopted by foster parents, paving the way for her charity and pageant career.

Kadance Fredericksen is a beauty queen, philanthropist, and high school senior.

Kadance Fredericksen was a senior at Baker High School, scheduled to graduate in a few months. Just days before her death, the beauty queen received a $40,000 scholarship and was excited about her college dream coming true. She shared her joy on Instagram on February 7.

“We are deeply saddened by the tragic loss of Kadance Fredericksen, an outstanding student, Baker senior and founder of Kada’s Promise. Our hearts go out to her family, friends and all who knew and loved her,” Baker High School posted on Facebook. A candlelight vigil was held at the school on the evening of February 19 for Kadance Fredericksen.