She was a hero! 10-year-old girl dies saving two toddlers from path of SUV

Kiera Larsen, 10, has been hailed a hero and guardian angel for the act.

She was playing in a dirt driveway with the two girls when a SUV started rolling backwards toward them, Dailymail reports.

Keira successfully moved the two girls, Adison, 1, and Emma, 2, aside but she herself was hit by the vehicle and was left with major injuries.

She was pronounced dead at the hospital.

‘She is truly a hero. She will forever be my kids’ guardian angel,’ the mother of the two girls, Alissa Jenkins, told Fox 5. ‘She saved both my daughters’ lives.’

‘A child died heroically, I mean if you think about it, she sacrificed herself for another small child,’ California Highway Patrol Officer Kevin Pearlstein told Fox.

‘We’re going to do an inspection on the vehicle, find out why this happened, find out if there was some sort of malfunction on the vehicle and go from there.’.