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Clean Hydrogen Partnership

Collison with vehicle

Event

Event ID
406
Quality
Description
A car was driving out of the parking and hit the fuel cell bus at the rear (on the right-hand side).
Because of the slow speed of the fuel cell bus and the low speed of the car, only the body of the fuel cell bus and the car were damaged.
Event Initiating system
Classification of the physical effects
No Hydrogen Release
Nature of the consequences
Macro-region
Europe
Country
Switzerland
Date
Main component involved?
Fcev (Bus)
How was it involved?
Damage, No Release
Initiating cause
Impact, Rollover, Crash
Root causes
Root CAUSE analysis
The INITIATING CAUSE was a small road incident
The ROOT CAUSE was a human error.

Facility

Application
Road Vehicles
Sub-application
Hydrogen bus
Hydrogen supply chain stage
All components affected
FCEV bus, private car
Location type
Unknown
Operational condition

Emergency & Consequences

Number of injured persons
0
Number of fatalities
0

Event Nature

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

References

Reference & weblink

References\HIAD_406.pdf

JRC assessment