Includes:

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

Excludes1

  1. V42 Car occupant injured in collision with two- or three-wheeled motor vehicle

    The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category V42

    • A - initial encounter
    • D - subsequent encounter
    • S - sequela
    1. V42.0 Car driver injured in collision with two- or three-wheeled motor vehicle in nontraffic accident

    2. V42.1 Car passenger injured in collision with two- or three-wheeled motor vehicle in nontraffic accident

    3. V42.2 Person on outside of car injured in collision with two- or three-wheeled motor vehicle in nontraffic accident

    4. V42.3 Unspecified car occupant injured in collision with two- or three-wheeled motor vehicle in nontraffic accident

    5. V42.4 Person boarding or alighting a car injured in collision with two- or three-wheeled motor vehicle

    6. V42.5 Car driver injured in collision with two- or three-wheeled motor vehicle in traffic accident

    7. V42.6 Car passenger injured in collision with two- or three-wheeled motor vehicle in traffic accident

    8. V42.7 Person on outside of car injured in collision with two- or three-wheeled motor vehicle in traffic accident

    9. V42.9 Unspecified car occupant injured in collision with two- or three-wheeled motor vehicle 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.