Event
- Event ID
- 1088
- Quality
- Description
A fuel cells and hydrogen vehicle (FCEV) was travelling at approx. 75 km/h (80 km/h speed limit) on a straight, downhill part of the road. Another vehicles was waiting at a STOP sign on the right side, did not see the incoming FCEV and drove into the road at the moment of the FEV passing.
The second vehicle hit the FCEV on the back right side.
There were only body parts damaged and no hydrogen was released. There was no oil or other fluid spillage and no people were injured.
The diagnostic system of the FCEV did not issue any alarm, and there were no warning lights to indicate a problem with the hydrogen systems on-board.- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- No Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- Switzerland
- Date
- Component involved
- FCEV
- Failure mode
- damage, no release
- Initiating cause
- impact, rollover, crash
- Root CAUSE analysis
A driver not seeing the other vehicle.
- Root causes
- Date entry in HIAD
- 01/07/2024
Facility
- Application
- Road vehicles
- Sub-application
- FCEV-LDV
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
side of the car
- 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
car body parts damage
- Emergency action
None
Lesson Learnt
- Lesson Learnt
This event is mainly about road safety in general. So far FCEV have never been involved in an road crash or collision escalating up to affect he onboard hydrogen systems and causing a hydrogen release.
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)
