Derek settled in his car, relieved that all of the victims from the car accident were relatively stable. He couldn't imagine how they would have all survived if he hadn't been in the right place at the wrong time. He fumbled around the car for a moment looking for his phone. Just as he finally found it, where it had fallen during his evasive maneuvers to avoid the crash ahead of him, the phone began ringing. He looked up just in time to see a Red semi swerve slightly around him as he answered the phone.
"Meredith" he smiled into the phone. "You just couldn't wait to talk to me."
He heard the panic in her voice, "No, no, I'm fine. There was an accident. I wasn't injured. I'm heading home. I'm going to have to call the President's office and fly tomorrow, but Mer, I really think we should both go and take the kids." He grinned as he listened to her, his face sobering as he heard the chaos of the hospital in the background. "I'm on the way. I'll see you soon. I love you."
**********"how looking for his phone before pulling onto the road saved Derek Shepherd's life*************