Includes:

  • a four-wheeled motor vehicle designed primarily for carrying passengers
  • automobile (pulling a trailer or camper)

Excludes1

  1. V48 Car occupant injured in noncollision transport accident

    Includes:

    • overturning car NOS
    • overturning car without collision

    The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category V48

    • A - initial encounter
    • D - subsequent encounter
    • S - sequela
    1. V48.0 Car driver injured in noncollision transport accident in nontraffic accident

    2. V48.1 Car passenger injured in noncollision transport accident in nontraffic accident

    3. V48.2 Person on outside of car injured in noncollision transport accident in nontraffic accident

    4. V48.3 Unspecified car occupant injured in noncollision transport accident in nontraffic accident

    5. V48.4 Person boarding or alighting a car injured in noncollision transport accident

    6. V48.5 Car driver injured in noncollision transport accident in traffic accident

    7. V48.6 Car passenger injured in noncollision transport accident in traffic accident

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

    9. V48.9 Unspecified car occupant injured in noncollision transport accident in traffic accident

Abbreviations used here:

NEC Not elsewhere classifiable
This abbreviation in the Tabular List represents “other specified”. When a specific code is not available for a condition, the Tabular List includes an NEC entry under a code to identify the code as the “other specified” code.

NOS Not otherwise specified
This abbreviation is the equivalent of unspecified.