LA MESA, Calif. (KGTV) – An emergency nurse at Sharp Memorial Hospital is being remembered after she and another good Samaritan were killed while trying to help at the scene of a crash on Interstate 15.
Nereida Benitez, known as “Nedi” to friends, began her nursing career nearly a year into the pandemic at Sharp Grossmont Hospital and worked in COVID units for 2 years, before becoming an ER nurse.
Last Thursday, just after 4 a.m., Benitez had finished her overnight shift and was driving home to Temecula when she pulled over on the side of I-15, near SR-76, to assist after a crash…