I've only had one guy die due to collision, that was when I had some fighters escorting the mothership, I docked at a station, and somehow that guy got lodged in a tight space so when the mothership left he got stuck and blew up -_-"

My best WTF moment was when I docked my missile specialist in the midst of a heated engagement to reload ammo, then as soon as he launched I gave him a target and activated salvo. Naturally, he fired... even though the line of fire went right through the mothership. /facepalm

Seems like the AI isn't particularly picky about whether anyone (even himself!) is in the blast radius; I've seen them launch goddamn torpedoes at point blank range. In fact most of my OHSHIT moments are due to missile mishaps. It's like whenever the game triggers that "Player armor is lower than 50%" pause warning and I see everyone else is at full shields, it's most likely some dumbass fired a missile too close.