Event
- Event ID
- 446
- Quality
- Description
A private car did not observe the right of way and hit a hydrogen and fuel cells bus on the right side.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- No Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- Italy
- 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
- 01/01/2017
Facility
- Application
- Road vehicles
- Sub-application
- FCEV-bus
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
Bus 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
- Pre-event occurrences
Hydrogen quantity indicated corresponds to the maximal average capacity of the FC buses. Real state of charge of the bus at the moment of the incidents is unknown.
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 0
Lesson Learnt
- Lesson Learnt
This is a standard road collision which did not affected the onboard hydrogen system. This type of road incidents occur very often, with no need to take actions beyond repairing/replacing of the damaged parts.
In-depth data
- Release type
- no release
- Released amount (kg)
- 0
- Release temperature [°C]
- 25
- Release pressure [MPa]
- 35
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- Investigation report
- Reference & weblink
Provided to JRC by the operator of the facility (confidential)
