Event
- Event ID
- 406
- Quality
- Description
A car was driving out of the parking and hit the fuel cell bus at the rear (on the right-hand side).
Because of the slow speed of the fuel cell bus and the low speed of the car, only the body of the fuel cell bus and the car were damaged.- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- No Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- Switzerland
- Date
- Component involved
- FCEV bus
- Failure mode
- damage, no release
- Initiating cause
- impact, rollover, crash
- Root CAUSE analysis
The INITIATING CAUSE was a small road incident
The ROOT CAUSE was a human error.- Root causes
- Date entry in HIAD
- 01/01/2017
Facility
- Application
- Road vehicles
- Sub-application
- FCEV-bus
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
FCEV bus, private car
- 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
- Unknown
- Location
- populated area
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 0
In-depth data
- Release type
- no release
- Released amount (kg)
- 0
- Release temperature [°C]
- 25
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- Investigation report
- Reference & weblink
Provided to JRC by the operator of the facility
