Dr. Frank Ryan, plastic surgeon to Heidi Montag and other celebrities, was sending a Twitter message about his border collie just before his fatal car accident, his ex-girlfriend tells PEOPLE.
"He lived up in Malibu on a tiny street and he was texting while driving and he accidentally went over the cliff," Charmaine Blake says.
Blake, a celebrity publicist, says Ryan's family was told by investigators that the Tweeting caused the wreck on Monday.
The dog, whose name is Jill -- Blake's middle name -- was in the car at the time of the crash and survived injuries to the head, eye and paw.
When Al Gore invented the internet do you ever think he foresaw that someday it would manage to kill us? I love twitter but is anything that important that you have to tweet about it while you are driving? Maybe, if you are being held hostage and can tweet out with one hand while driving with the other and managing not to be discovered by the perps that is important. Maybe your wife is pregnant and you are driving to the emergency room, oh wait the more I think about this the more I realize nothing is important enough to tweet about while driving.
Twitter is a giant online billboard on the superhighway of information, where we can post a myriad of things we are doing at any given second. It's not meant to be a phone, or an email, or even a instant message. A few people have probably died looking at billboards while driving and I imagine someone has even died while reading a tweet but do drive off a cliff while creating a tweet we are just inventing new ways to die.
America, I am afraid for all of us.
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