Event
- Event ID
- 468
- Quality
- Description
FCEV road collision. Details unknown. Upper right side was seriously damaged.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- No Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- Germany
- 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
- 01/01/2019
Facility
- Application
- Road vehicles
- Sub-application
- FCEV LDV
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
car 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
- Post-event summary
Affected component: Front upper right side of the car
Time loss: 3 days
Lesson Learnt
- Lesson Learnt
The right front collision is a very common type of accident.
The hydrogen tanks are located in the back and the fuel cell stack in the middle of the car.
Therefore, any frontal crash will most probably never result in a hydrogen release or damage to hydrogen systems.
In-depth data
- Release type
- no release
- Released amount (kg)
- 0
- Release temperature [°C]
- 25
- Release pressure [MPa]
- 70
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- Investigation report
- Reference & weblink
Provided to JRC by the operator of the facility (confidential)
