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.
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