Event
- Event ID
- 1227
- Quality
- Description
- A lorry carrying a rack with compressed hydrogen cylinders overturned on a highway. The rack impacted the ground, and possibly deformed, but did not lose its contents. A fire developed: it is unclear if the cylinders leaked and the hydrogen ignited contributing to the fire. The emergency caused an 11-hour closure of the highway.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Fire (No additional details provided)
- Macro-region
- Asia
- Country
- Japan
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Valve (Generic)
- How was it involved?
- Unknown
- Initiating cause
- Impact, Rollover, Crash
- Root causes
- Root CAUSE analysis
- Since the role of he cylinders inthis road accident is unclear, The only indisputable ROOT CAUSE is a wrong manoeuvre of the driver.
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen Transport And Distribution
- Sub-application
- CGH2 cylinders truck
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Transport (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- valves, bottles, rack, truck
- Location type
- Open
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 1
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Post-event summary
- The truck was destroyed
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Actual pressure (MPa)
- 20
- Design pressure (MPa)
- 20
- Presumed ignition source
- Mechanical sparks
References
- Reference & weblink
Hydrogen Inside news<br />
https://www.hydrogeninsight.com/transport/hydrogen-truck-crash-and-resu… />
(accessed october 2024)RRKK news on YouTube<br />
A truck carrying liquid hydrogen overturned and caught fire on the Kyushu Expressway, closing the...<br />
(accesed Novemebr 2025)
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- News
