V49.9Car occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in unspecified traffic accident

V49.9 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for car occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in unspecified traffic accident. It belongs to category V49 (car occupant injured in other and unspecified transport accidents), 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 V49, choose V49.9 (Car occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in unspecified traffic accident) only when documentation doesn't support a more specific option: driver injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in nontraffic accident (V49.0), passenger injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in nontraffic accident (V49.1), unspecified car occupant injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in nontraffic accident (V49.2), car occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in unspecified nontraffic accident (V49.3), driver injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in traffic accident (V49.4), passenger injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in traffic accident (V49.5), unspecified car occupant injured in collision with other and unspecified motor vehicles in traffic accident (V49.6) and car occupant (driver) (passenger) injured in other specified transport accidents (V49.8).

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.