Family and friends are mourning the loss of a teen pageant contestant who was killed in a tragic car crash in Florida.

An 18-year-old beauty pageant queen who founded a child advocacy program after surviving abuse herself died in a head-on crash in Florida. “In the pageant world there are a lot of sequins, glitter and sparkles,” Miss Okaloosa County LLC shared. “ Kadance Fredericksen did not need those.”

Why a Florida beauty queen's vehicle crossed the center line and crashed head-on into an 18-wheeler remains a mystery.

Kadance Fredericksen, an 18-year-old pageant contestant, had big plans for the future, according to her mom. Sadly, her life was cut short when she died in a car crash in Florida earlier this week.

A Miss Teen USA pageant queen has died at 18 following a car crash in Florida. Kadance Fredericksen, who represented Okaloosa County at the 2024 Miss Florida Teen USA pageant, was killed after her vehicle collided head-on with a tractor trailer in Santa Rosa County around 1:30pm on Monday,

The 18-year-old pageant queen was driving her Sedan on Florida State Road 4 when she collided head on with a tractor trailer. The Florida Highway Patrol crash report details the accident, saying the teen merged into the eastbound lane from the westbound lane for “unknown reasons.” Kadence was pronounced dead at the scene.

Kadance Fredericksen, the most recent winner of Miss Okaloosa County Teen USA pageant, died after a traffic collision in Florida on7. She was 18. Brittany Aldean, country singer Jason Aldean's wife, shares her condolences on Instagram.

The 18-year-old Miss Teen USA pageant competitor killed in a head-on car crash on a Florida highway this week had veered into oncoming traffic — and died mere minutes from home days after nabbing a $40,