Driving Privileges: Should senior citizens be required to pass road tests?

First of all, picture yourself driving to - lets say, work. There is a bad traffic jam for the freeway, so you decide to take the back roads to defeat the traffic in order to not be late for work. On your way, cutting lefts and taking rights, you end up behind some late 90's Cadillac going about 15 under the speed limit. Patiently waiting for it to pull off to the side, your nerves really start to get to you. You finally pass the "ol' geezer" and are on your way to work. About 10 minutes later, you hear schreeching of loads of tires and loud banging and smashing of metal. You look to the freeway on your left, and see that the same Cadillac, which was causing you hell earlier, just caused a 10 car pile-up for pulling out infront of someone going 70+ mph. If that doesn't bother you, then you must not read on.

Within the past few years, senior citizens and their driving abilites, or shall I say "disabilites" have been making the news. Every now and then, you'll hear of some 75+ year old man or woman carelessly causing a critical (and sometimes deadly) automobile crash. Many of you may know about the crash out west, where a senior citizen male crashed through a market place killing some people and injuring some as well. Well, there is a similar story that hit my hometown. About two weeks ago, on Rt. 50 there was a very bad crash right outside of my town. I live in Belpre, Ohio..about 15 minutes away from Marietta, and there are stop-lights down our highway to "prevent accidents." Adding to this, is a 50 MPH speed limit, in which you should follow. Well, a mom and her daughter were driving down the highway, and were coming up on the lights. They were green, so they preceeded to go. Just within seconds, a senior citizen driver ran the stop light and hit the woman and her daughter. The womans husband was following behind them in his car. He stopped the car, jumped out of the vehicle, and tried to get his wife and daughter out. Minutes later an Ambulance arrived: sending the daughter to the hospital in critical condition, and the wife being pulled out of the car with the jaws of life, and later on dying from loss of blood. This is only one, of MANY nationwide cases which happen week after week.

I know the question that comes to most people's minds: How can someone driving so slow, be so dangerous? Well, in today's world, nobody really ever takes their time anymore. Going too slow, can cause careless bumper-to-bumper accidents, road rage, and sometimes all-out car pileups. Something needs to happen to prevent further deaths. There should be some type of road testing for senior citizens to pass once every few years (or maybe even months!)

In my opinion, the public is usually scared of teen drivers hitting the road; but, what about these senior citizens?
There are various things about senior citizen drivers which infuriate me:
1. Leaving their blinkers on 10 miles after they have already turned.
2. Going 10-20 miles per hour UNDER the speed limit in safe road conditions.
3. Not knowing how to correctly park a car.
4. Pulling out infront of you, then going SUPER slow.
5. Not being able to hear your constant horn honking when you are trying to tell them something.
6. Passing one old person, just to end up behind ANOTHER old person.

Please tell me your opinion on this and what should be done....