Video shows car with girl inside plunging from waterfall

Dramatic video shows the moment a car with a screaming 12-year-old girl trapped inside suddenly plunges over a waterfall in India — quickly followed by the girl’s dad, who leaped in to save her even though he cannot swim.

The harrowing ordeal was caught on now-viral cellphone footage Sunday at the popular Lodhiya Kund waterfall near the city of Indore in Madhya Pradesh state, according to The Times of India.

The red Honda Brio is initially seen atop a roughly 15-foot cliff above a pond — having rolled backward with the young girl, Zaunak Ali, inside getting changed, the outlet said.

Her dad, Tayyab Ali, 40, desperately tries to yank the car door open as it rolls — but is unable to stop it plunging bumper-first over the side with his daughter still trapped inside.

The dad is seen leaping in immediately after the car — helplessly flailing around in the water as his daughter’s screams fill the air, the video shows.

People who were enjoying a picnic nearby appear to initially freeze with shock, before jumping in to save the pair from drowning.

“I’m a good swimmer, so I jumped in immediately,” one of the rescuers, mechanical engineer Sumit Mathew, 26, told The Times of India.

“The girl was still inside the car. Her father was closest to me, so I decided to save him first and go back for the girl.”

He added that other good Samaritans ultimately reached the girl and carried her to safety. 

Incredibly, father and daughter were not seriously hurt and were treated for only minor injuries.

Police concluded that the accident happened because the car was parked “very negligently” on the edge of the cliff and its handbrake was not engaged.

“We have learned that the car started rolling after its trunk was closed forcefully and then fell into the pool of the waterfall,” police official Mansharam Baghel said.

Ali reportedly told the authorities that the handbrake “accidentally got disengaged.”