Event
- Event ID
- 1240
- Quality
- Description
- A truck carrying hydrogen cylinders was destroyed by fire after a crash against a tree. The truck driver lost control of its vehicle when a tyre burst and took fire. The fire engulphed the whole vehicle.
it is unclear what happened to the cylinders. The truck was delivering them to a factory, so it is plausible to assume that they were full. Apparently, the cylinders did not explode due to the fire. According to a speaker of the fire brigade, they did not even leak, because the fire was easily brought under control in 45 minutes. - Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- No Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Asia
- Country
- India
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Cgh2 Cylinder(S)
- How was it involved?
- No Release
- Initiating cause
- Conventional Component Failure (Fire-Tyres)
- 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
- Hydrogen Transport And Distribution
- Sub-application
- CGH2 cylinders truck
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Transport (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- tyre, truck
- Location type
- Open
- Location description
- Countriside Or Desert
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Post-event summary
- The truck was at total loss.
Lesson Learnt
- Lesson Learnt
- From the point of view of hydrogen technologies, this was a near miss. From a broader point of view, this was a road accident, by which hydrogen systems were at risk but not involved. If the news is confirmed, this can be explained with the fire resistance of the cylinders design.
References
- Reference & weblink
Online news of the Times of India (23/06/2023)<br />
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ludhiana/truck-carrying-hydrog…. <br />
(accessed December 2025)News of on Hydrogen Insight<br />
https://www.hydrogeninsight.com/transport/truck-towing-hydrogen-cylinde… />
(accessed December 2025)
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- News
