Event
- Event ID
- 875
- Quality
- Description
A conventional truck drove into a FCEV. The left rear side was damaged. There were no injuries and no hydrogen released. The car body needed to be repaired and the receptacle and the hydrogen tube need to be replaced.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- No Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- 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
- 01/01/2023
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]
- high pressure (above 50 MPa)
- Location type
- Open
- Location
- highway or similar
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Post-event summary
Affected component: bumper, rear quarter panel, wheel rim, door was damaged.
Probably the hydrogen filling tube was also damaged and therefore needed replacement.
In-depth data
- Release type
- no release
- Release temperature [°C]
- 25
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- Investigation report
- Reference & weblink
Provided to JRC by the operator of the facility (confidential)
