A driver and her friends rescued a stranded dog they found injured on an expressway in Thailand.

Walaiphan Rusamee was on her way to pick up her kids from school when she spotted the exhausted stray on the edge of the busy motorway in Suphan Buri province, Thailand, on October 24.

Footage shows Walaiphan checking on the pooch that could not stand up as its legs were hurt. They covered it with a blanket as a makeshift stretcher before carrying it to the back of the car.

The good Samaritans took the Thai Ridgeback to a vet where medics treated its broken bone, suspected to have been sustained from a car hit and run.

Walaiphan said: ‘I saw the brown dog from the corner of my eyes, so I drove back. We took it to the hospital. The first vet we found was closed, so we had to go around the province until we found one.

‘Fortunately, there were no internal injuries, but its wounds had festered. I hope it recovers well. I pray to the sacred beings to help it survive.'

Once the dog is out of the clinic, Walaiphan will adopt it and name it Sop Ta, which means ‘making eye contact' in Thai.