Police believe a hit-and-run driver may have caused a fatal crash on Highway 101 that killed a 9-year-old girl and critically injured her mother Saturday in Calabasas.

•   A large, white SUV sideswiped a Chrysler sedan on Highway 101 and kept on driving. The impact caused the Chrysler to roll over several times and burst into flames.

•   A 9-year-old girl burned to death in the car. Her mother suffered third-degree burns on 95 percent of her body, including her lungs. She is not expected to survive.

•   Police are looking for the SUV or any information about it.

The deadly car accident occurred at about 8:30 a.m., according to a KTLA News report.

California Highway Patrol fficer Leland Tang said 27-year-old Gilani Taylor, an aspiring R&B singer and songwriter, was driving a 1995 Chrysler sedan eastbound on the freeway at the time of the accident.

Initially, little was known about the accident. Early reports stated that Taylor lost control of her vehicle, crashed into a center divider, spun out, and slammed into a big-rig.

Subsequently, however, witnesses came forward and told police a different story. One of the witnesses was in the vehicle directly behind Taylor’s at the time of the crash. She said a large, white SUV sideswiped Taylor’s car and knocked it out of control.

The SUV kept driving, but Taylor’s car rolled over and slid about 20 feet on its roof, and then burst unto flames, Tang said. The blaze completely engulfed the vehicle within seconds.

Taylor managed to crawl from the car but she was unable to pull out her 9-year-old daughter. A number of Good Samaritans tried to help.

“She crawled out of the window and started crawling on her elbows to get out of the car,” witness Dale Johnsen said. ”Then these guys who were out there grabbed her under the arms and pulled her from the second to fourth lane.”

Taylor was literally on fire. The Good Samaritans ripped off their shirts and tried to put out the flames on her skin.

“She’s rolling in pain, on fire, and her skin is all falling off,” Johnsen said. “I was shocked at first, I thought it was a horror movie.”

Taylor’s 9-year-old daughter burned to death in the car.

Taylor suffered severe burn injuries on 95 percent of her body, including her lungs. She was airlifted via helicopter to UCLA Medical Center, where she was listed in critical condition.

She was later transferred to the burn center at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center (LAC-USC), where spokesperson Rosa Saca said almost all of Taylor’s burns were third degree. Family members told KTLA all of the skin on Taylor’s body was burned off except the skin on the bottom of her feet. Doctors said her chances of survival were slim.

“Her chances of surviving are small at best,” Dr. Warren Gardner of the LAC-USC Trauma Center told ABC News. “Children occasionally survive burns this size. In general, adults don’t. She’s a healthy 27-year-old, so we’ll do the best we can and see what happens.”

Taylor was being kept alive on a respirator. Her husband, Rodney Taylor, asked for prayers and is hoping for a miracle.

Tang said the CHP is now looking for that white, early 2000s model SUV. After hitting Taylor’s Chrysler sedan, the SUV continued east on the 101 Freeway under the La Virgenes Road overpass. The witness did not see if the driver was male or female, Tang said.

Anyone with information about the white SUV or the accident is urged to call the CHP at (818) 888-0980.

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