V45.3Unspecified car occupant injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in nontraffic accident

V45.3 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for unspecified car occupant injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in nontraffic accident. It belongs to category V45 (car occupant injured in collision with railway train or railway 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 V45, choose V45.3 (Unspecified car occupant injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in nontraffic accident) only when documentation doesn't support a more specific option: car driver injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in nontraffic accident (V45.0), car passenger injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in nontraffic accident (V45.1), person on outside of car injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in nontraffic accident (V45.2), person boarding or alighting a car injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle (V45.4), car driver injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in traffic accident (V45.5), car passenger injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in traffic accident (V45.6), person on outside of car injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in traffic accident (V45.7) and unspecified car occupant injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in traffic accident (V45.9).

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.