A three-year-old dog named Loung, who had become a local celebrity in Thailand’s Chanthaburi province, has been killed by a car.

Loung became separated from her owner last year, when she is believed to have fallen from a vehicle travelling near the village of Ban Nong Khon in eastern Thailand.

For the next 12 months, the Bangkok Post reports, Loung sat alongside the Sukhumvit Road – a busy highway linking Bangkok and Cambodia – apparently waiting for her owner to return.