A Florida man who tried to save a cat off the Florida Turnpike is in critical condition, and another person is dead, after the man's kind actions led to a deadly car accident on the busy expressway Monday.

Sergeant Mark G. Wysocky said Tequesta, Fla. native Michael James Schneider, 35, was attempting to corral the cat when a 2010 Honda Accord came along and smashed into a guardrail and Schneider’s vehicle, a 2003 Toyota Tundra.

Schneider "walked into the center lane, was hit by a vehicle," Wysocky. "That vehicle then veered to the right with Schneider riding on the hood,