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Clean Hydrogen Partnership

Collison with vehicle

Event

Event ID
407
Quality
Description
While the FC bus was standing at its regular bus stop at the main bus terminal another bus drove into the rear of the FC Bus causing damages to the rear hood affecting the protective cap and the high voltage gear box beneath it.
Event Initiating system
Classification of the physical effects
No Hydrogen Release
Nature of the consequences
Macro-region
Europe
Country
Germany
Date
Main component involved?
Fcev (Bus)
How was it involved?
Damage, No Release
Initiating cause
Impact, Rollover, Crash
Root causes
Root CAUSE analysis
It is unclear why the other bus drove into the FC bus. The driver claims he did not see the 18m, silver shiny FC Bus.

Facility

Application
Road Vehicles
Sub-application
Hydrogen bus
Hydrogen supply chain stage
All components affected
Hydrogen bus, bus.
Location type
Unknown
Operational condition

Emergency & Consequences

Number of injured persons
0
Number of fatalities
0

Event Nature

Release type
no release
Released amount
0
Presumed ignition source
No release

References

Reference & weblink

References\HIAD_407.pdf

JRC assessment