V85.2Person on outside of special construction vehicle injured in traffic accident

V85.2 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for person on outside of special construction vehicle injured in traffic accident. It belongs to category V85 (occupant of special construction vehicle injured in transport accident), block V80-V89 (other land transport accidents) 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 V85 (occupant of special construction vehicle injured in transport accident), V85.2 is specifically for person on outside of special construction vehicle injured in traffic accident. Related codes cover driver of special construction vehicle injured in traffic accident (V85.0), passenger of special construction vehicle injured in traffic accident (V85.1), unspecified occupant of special construction vehicle injured in traffic accident (V85.3), person injured while boarding or alighting from special construction vehicle (V85.4), driver of special construction vehicle injured in nontraffic accident (V85.5), passenger of special construction vehicle injured in nontraffic accident (V85.6), person on outside of special construction vehicle injured in nontraffic accident (V85.7) and unspecified occupant of special construction vehicle injured in nontraffic accident (V85.9).

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.