Dr. Frank Ryan, the surgeon who performed extensive plastic surgery early this year on Heidi Montag, was sending a Twitter notice about his dog before his fatal car crash Monday in Los Angeles.

Dr. Frank Ryan died in a single-car collision in Los Angeles.

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“He lived up in Malibu adhering a tiny street and he was texting while driving and he accidentally went in excess the cliff,” Ryan’s ex-girlfriend Charmaine Blake, a celebrity publicist, told People depository.

Blake said Ryan’s family was told by police that the Tweeting caused the calamity. Los Angeles police haven’t commented about what led to the mischance, though the medical examiner said the doctor died of “blunt force head injury.”

Ryan, 50, was texting about his border collie Jill — Blake’s central part name. Under a picture of Jill lying on a beach, Ryan wrote, “Border collie jill surveying the contemplate from atop the sand dune.”

Frank Ryan’s border collie Jill that he Tweeted hind part before just before his death.

The dog, who was in the car at the time of the shatter, survived injuries to the head, eye and paw. She’s drawn large comments on Ryan’s Twitter page from people wishing her a quick recovery and remarking on the tragic circumstances of Ryan’s king of terrors.

Blake, who lived with Ryan from 2003 to 2006, told People that she hopes others learn from his demise that “people should not text and drive at all.”

The surgeon was charge into the spotlight in January when a radically reconfigured Montag announced that she had undergone 10 various plastic surgery procedures in one marathon session.

People magazine reported at the time that Montag’s natural was “horrified” by her surgeries.

The magazine quoted an anonymous original “close to the [Montag] family” as saying that Montag’s source, Darlene Egelhoff, “is horrified and having a total breakdown. She be possible to’t wait to confront Heidi when she goes home.”

But Montag, 23, told “Nightline” in a January parley that her mother knew she was going to have plastic surgery. Montag went up~ to say that she was even planning to schedule a “mommy makeover” by her plastic surgeon for her mom.

“Actually, she was excited concerning me and she’s asking me … for her surgery next,” afore~ Montag. “So for Mother’s Day, I have to ask [surgeon] Dr. Frank Ryan suppose that he’ll do the mommy makeover. But I think that she understands. And I determine the first surgery was a little more weary for her, and a small quantity more foreign to her, and she was a little more concerned.”

Montag had pap implants, a brow lift, botox in her forehead, a nose work at ~s revision, fat injections in her cheeks, a chin reduction, neck liposuction and had her ears pinned back.

ABC News reached loudly to Edelhoff, who declined to comment publicly.