Event
- Event ID
- 465
- Quality
- Description
- FCEV left front side of the vehicle damaged.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- No Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- Belgium
- 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
- car body
- Location type
- Open
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Post-event summary
- Nobody was injured
Time Lost: 3 days
Left front side of the vehicle damaged
Lesson Learnt
- Lesson Learnt
This is a standard road collision which did not affected the onboard hydrogen system. This type of road incidents occur very often, with no need to take actions beyond repairing/replacing of the damaged parts.
Event Nature
- Release type
- no release
- Released amount
- 0
- Design pressure (MPa)
- 70
- Presumed ignition source
- No release
References
- Reference & weblink
Report provided but confidential
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- Investigation report
