An 18-year-old beauty match queen died tragically in a horrorauto accident on a highway in Florida.
Kadance Fredericksen, a former winner of Miss Okaloosa County Teen USA from Baker, Florida, was mentioned on Tuesday as a victim in a horrible crash the day before.
The beauty queen rode Highway 4 near when her Sedan collided with a tractor trailer driven by a 56-year-old man, said Florida Highway Patrol.
Authorities still investigate the cause of the crash and the police have not made any arrests about the death of Fredericksen.
Fredericksen previously made the headlines in 2017 when she created 'Kadas Promise', a charity initiative that offered teddy bears and blankets to children in foster care, homeless and abuse shelters and hospitals.
She told Wear News in 2019 that she was inspired to help others because she experienced homelessness and abuse as a child, until she was admitted by her father and adoptive mother.
On her Kadas Promise website she wrote: 'For many dark times in my early childhood, the only thing I could call mine or that felt safe, was a single teddy bear that I received as a gift.
'I wore him from home, couch home and grabbed him firmly in the scariest times. It comes from these memories that Kada's promise was born. '
Fredericksen Kadance, 18, a former winner of Miss Okaloosa County Teen USA from Baker, Florida, was mentioned on Monday as the victim in a horrible crash in Baker, Florida
The 18-year-old previously made the headlines in 2017 when she created 'Kadas Promise', a charity initiative that offered teddy bears and blankets to children in foster care, homeless and abuse shelters and hospitals
Fredericksen, a former winner of Miss Okaloosa County Teen USA, participated in beauty competitions at countless levels, including Little Miss Northwest Florida in 2017
Fredericksen was a senior at Baker School and after the announcement of her passing school, the school tributed to the talented teenager.
'Please keep the family, the city and the school in mind, because they will all miss and mourn this young lady. Counselors, mental health and school psychologist are available today at Baker School for students, “the school said in a statement.
A former winner of Miss Okaloosa County Teen USA, Fredericksen participated in beauty competitions at countless levels, including Little Miss Northwest Florida in 2017.
She also participated in the Miss Teen Florida competition last year.
Just a week before her death, Fredericksen went to Instagram to celebrate a scholarship to help her go to university.
“This generous support will help to shape my future and take me one step closer to reaching my dreams,” she wrote in her last Instagram -post after receiving the $ 40,000 exhibition of the Ellison McCraney Ingram Foundation.
Only a week before her death, Fredericksen had celebrated the receiving from the Ellison McCraney Ingram Foundation Scholarship to help her go to university
Kadence was known for her charity work with disadvantaged children, seen with teddy bears who were given them by her initiative 'Kada's promise'
In addition to her charity work through the promise of Kada, Fredericksen also used her platform to pick up $ 25,000 for the Ronald McDonald House, WCJB reports.
Speaking of her charity work, Fredericksen told the outlet last year: 'When I was a small, I was abused and neglected by my biological mother and stepfather.
'At that time, the only thing I had to call mine was a cuddly animal that I received years in advance as a gift.
“Now that I am in a safe house with a safe family, I heard that I was not the only child who went through it.”
