Event
- Event ID
- 452
- Quality
- Description
- Truck moving backwards hit a hydrogen and fuel cells bus and damaged its side mirror.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- No Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Fcev
- How was it involved?
- Damage, 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
- Road Vehicles
- Sub-application
- Hydrogen bus
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
- Bus body
- Location type
- Open
- 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 injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
Event Nature
- Release type
- no release
- Released amount
- 0
- Design pressure (MPa)
- 35
- Presumed ignition source
- No release
References
- Reference & weblink
Report provided but confidential
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- Investigation report
