The driver of an SUV involved in one of a string of collisions more than a week ago says she and her five-year-old grandson are now traumatized.

This after a Bedford, Nova Scotia man is alleged to have collided with four vehicles, as well as two motorcycles, knocking two people from each.

Daniel Keays, 21, is facing more than a dozen counts including five attempted murder charges.

Georgina Fitzgerald was driving an SUV with her grandson Bentleigh in the passenger seat, when she says she noticed they were being followed by a van near her home on the White Point Road.

“It was getting creepy,” says Fitzgerald. “So I said to the little fella, ‘I’m going to drop you off at your grandmother’s, because this van is making me nervous.’”

As she tried to turn into the driveway, Fitzgerald says the van rear-ended her vehicle and then kept pushing it from behind.

“I wasn’t much away from going over the bank with my little grandson,” says Fitzgerald. “He could have been killed, the two of us. That would be something I would have to deal with, if anything happened to him.”

Keays has been sent for a 30-day psychiatric assessment at the East Coast Forensic Hospital in Dartmouth. He is scheduled to be back in court in Sydney on July 29th.

Keays was diagnosed last week with acute psychosis by a psychiatrist at the Cape Breton Regional Hospital, before being sent for a psychiatric assessment.

Along with a sore back and neck, Fitzgerald says she has been having nightmares about the crash.

“I can’t sleep,” says Fitzgerald. “If I close my eyes and go to sleep for a little bit, and I see that, I’m awake.”

She says her grandson is still scared, not wanting to talk about what happened.

“He gets very upset,” says Fitzgerald. “He thinks ‘the bad man’ is coming back to get him, and that’s why we don’t mention it to him.”

Fitzgerald says even if there is a conviction in this case, she is not sure it will bring her any peace of mind.

“There were just too many people hurt in this,” says Fitzgerald.

She says she’s just thankful that nobody’s injuries are life-threatening.

With files from CTV Atlantic’s Ryan MacDonald