I crashed my Healey into a mountain in Woodside, CA; hit the mountain (which was on my right) with the left front corner. I was lucky__going off the cliff would've been troublesome...
When I worked at Austin-Healey West, in San Francisco, I can remember more than one (>1) Healey coming in, usually over the weekend, where the steering column was sticking up higher than the windshield header. I saw a few pretty rough cars, but none of them were fatal to the occupants. Of course, this was before anyone was using seatbelts either, so they may have been tossed to the side, avoiding impalement.
As for my own wrecked Healey, while it didn't handle so well after the impact, and had a gashed radiator, I did manage to limp it back to SF in our Healey convoy.
I was returning from an Austin Healey Club Pacific Centre officers election picnic at the time. Pretty sure there was a picture of the carnage in the Healey Highlights sometime around the end of '78, begining of '79...