USA: Should senior citizens be required to take driving tests?

. LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas / Today's THV / June 5, 2009 By Jessica Ponder A state senator in Massachusetts wants drivers older than 85 to pass road and vision tests every five years but some say the law is a form of agism Advocates for seniors like AARP call testing requirements discriminatory. So far in Massachusetts' repeated attempts to require more than a vision test for seniors have failed. Currently there are about nineteen million senior citizens on the nation's roads That number is expected to jump to more than 30 million by 2020. Statistics say drivers 75 and older have a 37 percent higher crash rate than younger drivers. Should senior citizens be required to take driving tests, if so what kind and how often? Or this is age discrimination? CNN Copyright ©2009 todaysthv.com