Surveilance footage shows a father jumping out of a moving car to carry his daughter to safety, moments after she fell out of the car into a busy intersection.

Police in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, said that the four-year-old girl accidently opened the door while climbing from the back of the car to the front seat.

The father, without stopping the car, jumped out of the same door into the busy street to scoop her off the road.

The vehicle continued about 10 metres before it hit a tree on the curb and came to a halt.