After Miss Teen USA pageant delegate Kadance Fredericksen died following a tragic car accident, her mother detailed the aftermath.
Kadance Frederickson’s loved ones are still processing.
After the Florida Miss Teen USA delegate died in a traffic collision Feb. 17, her adopted mother Lisa Frederickson, has shared a heartbreaking detail.
“She was literally three minutes from home,” Lisa told People in an article published Feb. 19. “I have no idea what happened."
Kadance, 18, had been driving eastbound on Florida State Road 4 in Santa Rosa County Fla., when her vehicle veered into the westbound lane for “unknown reasons,” Florida Highway Patrol stated in a collision report. Her sedan crashed head-on with a tractor-trailer at around 1:30 p.m, and she was pronounced dead at the scene. The 56-year-old man who had been operating the opposite vehicle sustained minor injuries.
The 18-year-old had been accepted into nine universities—with ambition to become a veterinarian—and had been awarded a full-ride scholarship to Mississippi State University just one day before the crash.
“She had the whole world right there in her hands,” Lisa added, “and she was ready to take it on.”
In conjunction with her pageantry—which Lisa said Kadance pursued after “years” of therapy due to a childhood in an abusive home—the Florida Teen USA delegate launched her own nonprofit organization, Kada’s Promise, in 2017 to provide comfort objects to children in troubling living situations.
On her platform’s website, Kadance referred to the organization as her “greatest accomplishment to date,” adding, “I am so blessed that my pain was temporary and now I get to use my story to temporarily take someone else’s pain away.”
Lisa also noted that her daughter had raised over $25,000 for charities since launching her nonprofit, and said that her daughter “wanted everyone to be happy.”
In light of her passing, Kadance’s family is hoping to continue the mission of Kada’s Promise and is asking loved ones to bring stuffed animals to her upcoming funeral for donations.
“We want the whole world to know who Kadance is," Lisa told People. “We want to continue touching as many lives as we can, even though she's not here.”
