derek got in a car accident in season 11.
derek got in a car accident in season 11.
when does derek get in a car accident?
season 11
in season 11, derek is involved in a fatal car accident while driving to the airport for his final trip to washington. he can hear and process auditory input but is unable to speak. he is recognized by winnie, one of the victims of a crash he assisted in earlier, who tells the surgeons that their patient's name is derek and that he is a surgeon as well. the hospital he was taken to was understaffed, and his head injury was not detected quickly enough by the interns on duty that night. although the neurosurgeon on call is paged multiple times, he takes too long to arrive, and derek is declared brain dead. police arrive at meredith's door and take her to see derek, where she consents to remove him from life support. at the time of his death, meredith was pregnant with their third child. she gives birth to a daughter whom she names ellis after her mother.
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the next day, sarah takes derek to see santa (portrayed by noah, who takes his friend's shift) at the mall, finding another gift on the porch on the way out. while sarah and derek are gone pino sneaks into their house, using a key he had hidden years earlier when he and his father lived there. when sarah and derek get home early (due to noah's odd behavior towards derek) pino flees from the house. after confronting joe about pino's intrusion (and stating that she will call the police the next time it happens) sarah decides to let derek open the present dropped off earlier, but derek refuses to touch it. leaving derek alone, sarah is visited by her friend kim levitt (neith hunter) and while the two talk derek sneaks outside and throws the present in a garbage can, where kim's adopted son lonnie (conan yuzna) finds it. lonnie unwraps the gift and finds roller skates in it. joe, in a drunken rage, begins beating pino, accidentally killing him by knocking him down some stairs. while using the skates, lonnie is hit by a car and left hospitalized when rockets hidden within the skates cause him to lose control.
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