Event
- Event ID
- 479
- Quality
- Description
- Traffic accident with heavy rain.
Four persons were killed when a pickup track collided head-on with a liquid hydrogen tanker in heavy rain. - 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?
- Lh2 Tanker
- How was it involved?
- No Release
- Initiating cause
- Impact, Rollover, Crash
- Root causes
- Root CAUSE analysis
- The ROOT CAUSE of the crash was a human error, without participation of the hydrogen system. CONTRIBUTING was a harsh envieonmental condition, with heavy rain.
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen Transport And Distribution
- Sub-application
- LH2 tanker
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Transport (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- LH2 tanker
- Location type
- Open
- Operational condition
- Pre-event occurrences
- Traffic accident with heavy rain
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 4
Event Nature
- Release type
- no release
- Released amount
- 0
- Presumed ignition source
- No release
References
- Reference & weblink
News Journal, 27 November 1970. <br />
http://www.newspaperarchive.com
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- News
