Beloved Miss Teen USA pageant queen, 18, meets horrific fate while driving down Florida highway

An 18-year-old beauty pageant queen tragically died in a horror car crash on a Florida highway. 

Kadence Frederickson, a former winner of Miss Okaloosa County Teen USA from Baker, Florida, was named on Tuesday as the victim in a horrific crash the day before. 

The beauty queen was driving down Highway 4 near when her sedan collided head-on with a tractor trailer driven by a 56-year-old man, Florida Highway Patrol said. 

Authorities are still investigating the cause of the crash, and police have made no arrests regarding Frederickson’s death. 

Frederickson previously made headlines in 2017 when she created ‘Kada’s Promise’, a charity initiative that provided 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 taken in by her father and adoptive mother. 

On her Kada’s Promise website, she wrote: ‘During many dark times in my early childhood, the only thing that I could call my own or that made me feel safe was a single teddy bear that I received as a gift. 

‘I carried him with me from house to house, couch to couch and clutched him tightly in the scariest times. It is from these memories that Kada’s Promise was born.’ 

The 18-year-old previously made headlines in 2017 when she created ‘Kada’s Promise’, a charity initiative that provided teddy bears and blankets to children in foster care, homeless and abuse shelters, and hospitals

Frederickson was a senior at Baker School, and following the announcement of her passing the school paid tribute to the talented teenager. 

‘Please keep the family, the town, and the school in your thoughts as they will all miss and grieve 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, Frederickson competed in beauty pageants at numerous levels, including in the Miss Teen Florida competition last year.