Event
- Event ID
- 878
- Quality
- Description
- A vehicle overlooked into a road, overlooking the presence of another vehicles. The latter tried to avoid the accident by crossing to the other lane, occupied by a FCEV. The car was hit in the front.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- No Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- Germany
- Date
- 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
- Total loss of vehicle.
Event Nature
- Release type
- no release
- Presumed ignition source
- No release
References
- Reference & weblink
Report provided but confidential
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- Investigation report
