V42.5Car driver injured in collision with two- or three-wheeled motor vehicle in traffic accident

V42.5 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for car driver injured in collision with two- or three-wheeled motor vehicle in traffic accident. It belongs to category V42 (car occupant injured in collision with two- or three-wheeled motor vehicle), block V40-V49 (car occupant 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 V42 (car occupant injured in collision with two- or three-wheeled motor vehicle), V42.5 is specifically for car driver injured in collision with two- or three-wheeled motor vehicle in traffic accident. Related codes cover car driver injured in collision with two- or three-wheeled motor vehicle in nontraffic accident (V42.0), car passenger injured in collision with two- or three-wheeled motor vehicle in nontraffic accident (V42.1), person on outside of car injured in collision with two- or three-wheeled motor vehicle in nontraffic accident (V42.2), unspecified car occupant injured in collision with two- or three-wheeled motor vehicle in nontraffic accident (V42.3), person boarding or alighting a car injured in collision with two- or three-wheeled motor vehicle (V42.4), car passenger injured in collision with two- or three-wheeled motor vehicle in traffic accident (V42.6), person on outside of car injured in collision with two- or three-wheeled motor vehicle in traffic accident (V42.7) and unspecified car occupant injured in collision with two- or three-wheeled motor vehicle in traffic accident (V42.9).

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.