081710 ryan dog 500x322 Twitter Caused Fatal Car Crash Heidi Montag Doctor

After the news broke that celebrity plastic surgeon Dr. Frank Ryan had plowed off a Malibu cliff to his death– we showed you his last Twitter post, a picture of his dog looking out over the ocean, little did we know it was the sending of that Twitter message that most likely caused the car wreck.

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Ryan’s ex-girlfriend Charmaine Blake told PEOPLE, ”He lived up in Malibu on a tiny street and he was texting while driving and he accidentally went over the cliff.” Investigators confirmed to Ryan’s family that the Tweet delivered via cellphone was indeed a fatal one.

Ryan’s dog, Jill, who was in the vehicle at the time of the crashed, survived and was found swimming in the ocean.