Skip to main content
Clean Hydrogen Partnership

Collison with vehicle

Event

Event ID
876
Quality
Description
A truck conventional truck moved to another lane and did not see the FCEV. The collision caused a total loss to the latter.
Event Initiating system
Classification of the physical effects
No Hydrogen Release
Nature of the consequences
Macro-region
Europe
Country
Netherlands
Date
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
1
Number of fatalities
0
Post-event summary
Total loss of vehicle.
Driver had two fingers broken.
Front side of the vehicle seriously damaged. FC stack has received a shock and cannot be re-used.

Event Nature

Release type
no release
Presumed ignition source
No release

References

Reference & weblink

Report provided but confidential

JRC assessment