Dash cameras can normally be relied on to produce distressing footage, so when a heart-warming clip comes along, we jump all over it.

This touching moment, filmed in Shanghai, China, showed a caring motorist getting out of his car to save a kitten just moments before it could have been crushed by cars on a busy road.

The animal was cowering underneath a vehicle after seemingly becoming scared.

Most people would have simply stayed in their car, but not this driver who got out and went over to retrieve it.

He first knocked on the window of the car it was stuck under and told them what was going on.

Afterwards he got down on to the floor and pulled the kitten out, before dropping it off somewhere off camera.