I've been in no crashes that involved injury, but two that totaled vehicles.
One was in the mid-1990s driving my grandmother's '86 Pontiac Bonneville around downtown. Stopped at the light at 17 Ave & either 4th or 5th St SW (I forget which), intending to turn right. I began my turn as the light turned green for me, and just as I was about to breach the crosswalk I see a woman in white shirt and pants appear from in front of a white van (which had camouflaged her to me sort-of). I stopped so as to not cut her off, and got rear-ended by a kid in a Jeep Wrangler. He hit me hard enough to crease the roof of the car between the front and rear doors - couldn't open the rear doors at all. All the damage he did on his Jeep was bend a fender which he bent back into shape at-scene. He told the cop who showed up (yeah, they still did that those days) that he hadn't expected me to stop. He still got a following too close ticket. The Bonneville got written off due to the body & frame damage.
Another one was May 20, 2007. I remember it because I had had my first "mine since new" vehicle, a 2006 Subaru WRX, for 350 days. 4:45 in the morning I was driving up Highway 22 on the way to work and a deer leapt over the guardrail right into my lap, pretty much. At 100 km/h I had absolutely zero chance to brake. Somehow the air bags didn't go off and the windshield remained intact, even though the deer smacked the upper-left corner of the windshield with her face. The front end of the car basically exploded. Towed it to the dealer who shuffled it off to a collision place. They racked up $12.5k in damaged stuff (headlights, signal lights, front bumper, fog lights, both front fenders, rad & rad supports, battery & battery tray, cracked plastic timing shroud, top mount intercooler, and hood, plus some other stuff like windshield washer reservoir etc) before they found the cracked water pump mount, which is part of the engine block and that alone totaled the poor thing.
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