FIVE people were killed and five seriously hurt outside Mount Ayliff in the northern Transkei on Thursday, in the second head-on collision in two days in the region involving a truck and a minibus taxi. Seven people were killed and nine hurt on the N2 between Umtata and Engcobo on Wednesday when a minibus taxi driver fell asleep at the wheel and veered into the path of an oncoming truck. Transkei police spokeswoman Supt Nondumiso Japhta said the latest smash happened at 6.15am in thick mist on a blind rise on the N2 between Phuka and Mount Ayliff. Three other vehicles slammed into the taxi and the truck seconds after the collision, but no one else was hurt in the pile-up. Japhta said the injured, reported to be in a critical condition, were rushed to hospital in Mount Ayliff.