Meredith is widowed when Derek is killed in a car accident and was taken to an understaffed hospital. The doctors failed to recognize his head injury in time and allowed personal conflicts to interfere. Derek is declared brain dead, and Meredith must go to the medical center to consent to remove him from life support, shortly before she 's hit with the first waves of morning sickness. She tells Penny, the intern who was assigned to Derek that every doctor has "that one '' patient who dies on their watch and haunts them forever and "that one will make you work harder, and they make you better. ''
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Derek is killed in a car accident