hello all,
i was also having this issue on interior shots as well and was as concerned as the rest of us (I had sort of staked my professional reputation on the abilities of V-ray and sketchup together, having done several exterior renderings successfully).
i was able to determine the issue after a long trial and error process and for me, the issue was a scene that i was attempting to render was very close to a section cut and the section cut was between me and what i was trying to render. the scene itself was actually set inside a "wall" (well between two planes i guess technically) which i didn't notice due to the section cut, and i was unable to open the file without the initial material scan v-ray does when you open sketchup crashing.
the work around was to open sketch up, turn off the v-ray extension under sketchup preferences, open the file, delete the section cut, and move the scene location (in my case, to get the render i wanted, i had to delete walls), save the file, turn on the vray extension and then reopen sketchup. i do not know if this helps everyone, but it worked for me and we are describing the exact same crashing at the beginning. good luck!