Event
- Event ID
- 469
- Quality
- Description
FCEV crash
- 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
No people were injured.
No hydrogen has been released as the tanks are located in the back and the FC stack in the middle of the vehicle.
Time Lost: 3 days
Lesson Learnt
- Lesson Learnt
This is a standard road collision. This is a type of incidents occurring very often, no need to take actions. nevertheless, a careful check of the hydrogen system is required, especially when the damage area is near the on-board storage and the hydrogen supply lines.
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)
