A man was hit by a lorry when he was trying to save a dog on a road.

The dramatic clip, shot in Wuxi City in eastern Jiangsu Province on July 23, shows a black dog struggling to make it over at the zebra crossing, before finally falling down in the middle of the road.

Then a man in an orange T-shirt can be seen running to the dog, while raising his hand up to gesture the lorry driver to stop.

However, the lorry keeps going as the driver doesn't see him. It crashes into the man and runs over his leg, after he picked up the dog and was walking back.

According to local reports, the driver in the overloaded lorry did not see the man because he was in the driver’s blind spot.

No more details were known and the case was being investigated by local police, according to reports.

A man was hit by a lorry when he was trying to save a dog on a road.