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.”

An 18-year-old beauty pageant queen, Kadance Fredericksen, has died after her car crashed with a tractor-trailer in Florida, United States. Fredericksen

An 18-year-old beauty pageant queen has died in a car accident just a week after she received a scholarship for university.

The beauty queen also founded a program that provides teddy bears and blankets to children in foster care and homeless shelters