V15.5Pedal cycle passenger injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in traffic accident

V15.5 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for pedal cycle passenger injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in traffic accident. It belongs to category V15 (pedal cycle rider injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle), block V10-V19 (pedal cycle rider injured in transport accident) and chapter 20 (external causes of morbidity). It is a header code, so it can't be reported by itself; one of its 3 subcodes must be used instead.

Within V15 (pedal cycle rider injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle), V15.5 is specifically for pedal cycle passenger injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in traffic accident. Related codes cover pedal cycle driver injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in nontraffic accident (V15.0), pedal cycle passenger injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in nontraffic accident (V15.1), unspecified pedal cyclist injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in nontraffic accident (V15.2), person boarding or alighting a pedal cycle injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle (V15.3), pedal cycle driver injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in traffic accident (V15.4) and unspecified pedal cyclist injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in traffic accident (V15.9).

Codes in this range require a 7th character: A for initial encounter, D for subsequent encounter and S for sequela. Use placeholder "X" characters to fill any empty positions before the 7th character.

It has been part of ICD-10-CM since the code set took effect on October 1, 2015 and hasn't changed since.