Event
- Event ID
- 450
- Quality
- Description
A hydrogen and fuel cells bus was hit by a car. Damage on the right side
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- No Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- Italy
- Date
- Component involved
- FCEV
- Failure mode
- damage, no release
- Initiating cause
- impact, rollover, crash
- Root CAUSE analysis
INITIATING cause was a traffic accident. In absence of information on drivers and driver behaviours, the ROOT CAUSE can be attributed generically to a human error (wrong manoeuvre)
- Root causes
- Date entry in HIAD
- 01/01/2017
Facility
- Application
- Road vehicles
- Sub-application
- FCEV-bus
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
Bus body
- Process temperature range [C]
- ambient temperature (-50°C to +50°C)
- Process pressure range [MPa]
- medium to high pressure (10 to 50 MPa)
- Location type
- Open
- Location
- populated area
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 0
Lesson Learnt
- Lesson Learnt
This is a standard road collision which did not affected the onboard hydrogen system. This type of road incidents occur very often, with no need to take actions beyond repairing/replacing of the damaged parts.
In-depth data
- Release type
- no release
- Released amount (kg)
- 0
- Release temperature [°C]
- 25
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- Investigation report
- Reference & weblink
Provided to JRC by the operator of the facility (confidential)
