V48.7Person on outside of car injured in noncollision transport accident in traffic accident

V48.7 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for person on outside of car injured in noncollision transport accident in traffic accident. It belongs to category V48 (car occupant injured in noncollision transport accident), 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 V48 (car occupant injured in noncollision transport accident), V48.7 is specifically for person on outside of car injured in noncollision transport accident in traffic accident. Related codes cover car driver injured in noncollision transport accident in nontraffic accident (V48.0), car passenger injured in noncollision transport accident in nontraffic accident (V48.1), person on outside of car injured in noncollision transport accident in nontraffic accident (V48.2), unspecified car occupant injured in noncollision transport accident in nontraffic accident (V48.3), person boarding or alighting a car injured in noncollision transport accident (V48.4), car driver injured in noncollision transport accident in traffic accident (V48.5), car passenger injured in noncollision transport accident in traffic accident (V48.6) and unspecified car occupant injured in noncollision transport accident in traffic accident (V48.9).

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.