Motorists and fellow passengers rushed to rescue a child after he fell out of a car window.
The terrifying clip was recorded at an intersection in Ningbo, a city in eastern China just south of Shanghai.
In surveillance footage cars can be seen queuing at a red light, as a child suddenly appears out of the passenger-side window of a white vehicle.
As the driver pulls out and the car moves away, the child topples out of the window and hits the ground.
He's then left lying in the middle of the road as the car that was carrying him speeds away.
At one point, another white car is seen approaching the boy before blocking the road to prevent any further injury.
Several vehicles stop as stunned drivers and passengers get out of their cars to rescue him.
The first man to reach him quickly picks him up and moves him from the dangers of the road, carrying him to safety on the other side of the pedestrian crossing.
The child, who looks between five and eight, was so small that he could easily have been missed by passing motorists.
Local outlet CCTV News reported that the good samaritans contacted police once the child was safe.
One of his saviours, a man named Yang Haifeng, was said to be the first motorist who blocked off the traffic behind him.
He said: "I saw the child on the ground and was worried about the car behind. So I just drove over and parked in front of the kid."
Haifeng was asked whether he cared about China's strict traffic rules but said "life was at stake" and that he couldn't have stood idly by.
After the terrifying incident, Chinese police reminded parents to use car seats.
Yu Zheng, a policeman of the Yinzhou Traffic Police Brigade, said there would be "no penalty" for the drivers who flouted traffic laws to help the boy.
Thankfully, the youngster was not seriously injured.
Meanwhile, horror struck in China this morning as at least three were killed and six injured when a "gangster" stormed a nursery brandishing a knife.
Police in Jiangxi published news of the incident on China's Twitter-like Weibo platform this morning.
The "gangster", who was wearing a peaked cap and a mask, stormed the private kindergarten in Anfu County, the post reads.
Once inside the armed man killed three and left six injured.
The ages of the victims have not yet been confirmed.
Officials released the name of their initial suspect - a 48-year-old local man called Liu Mouhui.
In unconfirmed videos of the scene shared on social media, a police officer can be seen carrying a tiny child in his arms from a patrol car to an ambulance.
