Event
- Event ID
- 795
- Quality
- 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
- Classification of the physical effects
- No Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- France
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Cgh2 Tube Trailer
- How was it involved?
- No Release
- Initiating cause
- Impact, Rollover, Crash
- Root causes
- 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 maneuvre)
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen Transport And Distribution
- Sub-application
- CGH2 tube trailer
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Transport (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- trailer transporting hydrogen, road accident
- Location type
- Confined
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 2
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- 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.
Event Nature
- Release type
- no release
- Released amount
- 0
- Presumed ignition source
- No release
References
- Reference & weblink
ARIA data base <br />
event no. 44728
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- ARIA
