Failure

A system malfunction, colloquially breakdown, is entering a due to external causes interruption of the regular operating procedure.

In some areas of technology, the concept of a specific legal and operational technical importance.

Road

Malfunction of a vehicle on the road pose a special risk of accident and generally provide a traffic obstruction to other road users dar. As an immediate measure to be carried out:

• Hedging the danger point: Commissioning of hazard warning lights, setting up the margins triangle within a reasonable distance - but expressly required by law - with priority preservation of our own personal safety: How about the safety vests are to be applied
• Baldestmögliche the removal of the traffic obstruction source by pushing away, towing, or by a breakdown service ( towing, roadside assistance )

The road is meant by breakdown in particular:

• Flat tire, the air full of a tire with subsequent inability to drive
• Engine failure, the malfunction of the vehicle drive

Rail transport

A disruption in railway operation comprises, because the tracks are among the operating systems, significantly more events (which are on the road as pure traffic obstruction ). Operating noise can be brought about:

• By blocking of tracks due to accidents
• By destruction or damage to the roadbed
• By snowdrifts, avalanches, landslides or flooding of the tracks
• Due to the poor condition of the railway line or buildings during the period of renewal maintenance work
• Due to exceptional traffic conditions such as train delays, traffic congestion or other irregularities
• Result of political or military events such as strikes, riots or war
• Due to power failure or unstable power supply
• Or by another, the operation of disturbing event

Shipping

When waterway is called the industrial accident as general average.