Event
- Event ID
- 100
- Quality
- Description
- A small release of hydrogen occurred after the collision between a truck containing liquid hydrogen and a truck containing manganese dioxide on a highway.
Due to the release, the traffic was interrupted for 4 hours and the safety system of the truck repaired. - Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Unignited Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Leak No Ignition (No additional details provided)
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- France
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Valve (Generic)
- How was it involved?
- Rupture
- Initiating cause
- Impact, Rollover, Crash
- Root causes
- Root CAUSE analysis
- INITIATING cause was the collision between vehicles. 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
- LH2 tanker
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Transport (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- LH2 Truck
- Location type
- Open
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Post-event summary
- The hydrogen tank was isolated and its safety system repaired by specialists.
Event Nature
- Release type
- Liquid
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- No ignition
References
- Reference & weblink
Original description of the event #31267 in ARIA database<br />
https://www.aria.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/accident/31267/<br />
(accessed December 2025)
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- ARIA
