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Road collision involving a FCEV

Event

Event ID
1054
Quality
Description
The vehicle was being driven in traffic at low speed when it was struck from behind by a full-size pickup which forced the fuel-cell vehicle forward into another pickup. No hydrogen was released and no one was injured.
The vehicle was extensively damaged on both front and rear ends and later declared a total loss. A vehicle data analysis indicates that the vehicle and controls operated as designed.
Event Initiating system
Classification of the physical effects
No Hydrogen Release
Nature of the consequences
Macro-region
North America
Country
United States
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
FCEV
Location type
Open
Operational condition

Emergency & Consequences

Number of injured persons
0
Number of fatalities
0
Post-event summary
The vehicle was extensively damaged on both front and rear ends and later declared a total loss.

Event Nature

Release type
no release
Released amount
0
Presumed ignition source
No release

References

Reference & weblink

JRC assessment

Sources categories
News