Event
- Event ID
- 464
- Quality
- Description
- The right front side of a FCEV was hit by another car.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- No Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- Belgium
- 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
- FCEV LDV
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
- car body
- Location type
- Open
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Post-event summary
- Affected component: Right front side.
Lesson Learnt
- Lesson Learnt
The right front collision is a very common type of accident.
The hydrogen tanks are located in the back and the fuel cell stack in the middle of the car.
Therefore, any frontal crash will most probably never result in a hydrogen release or damage to hydrogen systems.
Event Nature
- Release type
- no release
- Released amount
- 0
- Design pressure (MPa)
- 70
- Presumed ignition source
- No release
References
- Reference & weblink
Report provided but confidential
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- Investigation report
