episode of grey's anatomy when derek died
Derek Shepherd In season 11 Shepherd suffers an accident while driving to the airport for his final trip to Washington, D.C. He is able to hear and process auditory input, but 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 Shepherd is declared brain dead. Police arrive at Meredith's door and take her to see Shepherd, where she consents to removing him from life support. He is now dead.[19] At the time of his death, unbeknownst to him, Meredith was pregnant with their third child. She gives birth to a daughter whom she names Ellis after her mother.