Event
- Event ID
- 996
- Quality
- Description
The tanker crashed into the guardrail on a ring ramp leading to a highway.
The vehicle overturned, and the tubes unit plunged more than 20 meters onto a road below.
Witnesses reported multiple explosions which could be heard up to two kilometres away.
[Taiwan English News of 30 September 2020.]- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Asia
- Country
- Taiwan
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Cgh2 Tube Trailer
- How was it involved?
- Rupture
- Initiating cause
- Impact, Rollover, Crash
- Root causes
- Root CAUSE analysis
- The hydrogen release and explosion was caused by the crash of the trailer against the rail of the highway. The ROOT AUSE, in absence of further detail, can be attributed to the driver losing contril of the vehicle.
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen Transport And Distribution
- Sub-application
- CGH2 tube trailer
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Hydrogen Transport (No additional details provided)
- All components affected
- hydrogen trailer
- Location type
- Open
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 1
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
References
- Reference & weblink
Text and images extracted from the Taiwan English News of 30 September 2020.
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- News
