Collision between a truck transporting CGH2 and a car

Event

Event ID: 795
Quality: 3
Description: A frontal road collision between a truck transporting pressurised hydrogen gas and a car. Both vehicles were projected into the fields, on each side of the road. No leakage of hydrogen gas was observed.
The driver of both vehicles were taken to the hospital. with some injuries.
First slowed down for several hours, the traffic was finally cut between 16:00 and 20:00 pm to allow the authorities to unload the truck. The trailer was then escorted by the gendarmes to the nearest town.
Event Initiating system: Non-Hydrogen system initiating event
Classification of the physical effects: No Hydrogen Release
Nature of the consequences: near miss
Macro-region: Europe
Country: France
Date: 28/12/2013
Component involved: CGH2 tube (trailer)
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: Human factors
Date entry in HIAD: 01/01/2020

Number of fatalities: 0
Number of injured persons: 2
Post-event summary: The vehicles were projected in the fields, on each side of the road.
No Hydrogen release.
The traffic was cut for 4h.
Emergency action: First slowed down for several hours, the traffic was finally cut between 4 pm and 8 pm to allow the authorities to clear the truck. The trailer was then escorted by the gendarmes to Compiègne.