Event
- Event ID
- 870
- Quality
- Description
- A lorry crashed into a hydrogen tube trailer with considerable speed on the highway A1 near Cologne.
The lorry driver was killed.
Gas escaped from tubes and valves of three of the nine tanks and was ignited.
The fire brigade let the gas burn and cooled the undamaged tanks. Other vehicles or persons were not involved. - Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Fire (No additional details provided)
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- Germany
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Valve (Generic)
- How was it involved?
- Rupture
- Initiating cause
- Impact, Rollover, Crash
- Root causes
- Root CAUSE analysis
- INITIATING cause of the hydrogen release was the crash into the hydrogen transporter.
In absence of information on driver, the ROOT CAUSE is attributed generically to a human error (wrong manoeuvre).
Nothing is said on the crashworthiness of the transporter.
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen Transport And Distribution
- Sub-application
- CGH2 tube trailer
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Transport (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- truck transporting hydrogen, highway
- Location type
- Open
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 1
- Environmental damage
- 0
- Post-event summary
- The driver of the lorry was killed, by the crash not by the hydrogen release.
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
References
- Reference & weblink
Mirror 2/2001<br />
News of the German Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Association (DWV)<br />
https://www.dwv-info.de/wasserstoff-spiegel/#1456498279633-abb860ba-5ef… />
(accessed July 2020)
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- News
