A man leaps from his moving car to save his two-year-old daughter who had fallen from the vehicle in a breathtaking moment at an intersection in Wenzhou on May 9, 2012.

Fortunately, the little girl only suffered cuts and bruises, and the moving car eventually crashed into a roadside tree, injuring nobody.

The drama was captured in a series of CCTV images that show just how close both child and father came to tragedy.

The first image shows the young girl opening the front door and falling on to the road as the car turns left at the intersection. The driver then quickly shifts to the passenger seat and jumps from the moving vehicle. .

A taxi behind brakes hard about one meter from the girl before she was eventually picked from the road. Their car continued, smashing into a roadside tree.

The driver surnamed He told police his two-year-old daughter somehow managed to crawl from the back into the front seat which have no child safety locks. As he was close to home, he decided to let his daughter stay in the front seat.

He was given a verbal warning by police.

An inspector with Wenzhou's automobile customer service explained that child-safety locks are only equipped on back seat doors, because the front passenger seat is near the controls for the driver.

He also suggests parents should not leave kids alone on the back seat, even if it has safety locks on.