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Collison with vehicle

Event

Event ID
878
Quality
Description
A vehicle overlooked into a road, overlooking the presence of another vehicles. The latter tried to avoid the accident by crossing to the other lane, occupied by a FCEV. The car was hit in the front.
Event Initiating system
Classification of the physical effects
No Hydrogen Release
Nature of the consequences
Macro-region
Europe
Country
Germany
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
0
Number of fatalities
0
Post-event summary
Total loss of vehicle.

Event Nature

Release type
no release
Presumed ignition source
No release

References

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Report provided but confidential

JRC assessment