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.”

Kadance Fredericksen, Miss Okaloosa County Teen USA, was involved in a collision with a tractor-trailer on Monday, Feb. 17, per reports

A Miss U.S.A. Pageant Queen and activist died last weekend in a car accident, People and multiple other outlets reported. She was only 18 years old.