One night a man stops at a small tavern during a long drive, and hears a story from the locals about a ghost that shows up on the highway when it snows real hard.
It seems that when the weather is really bad people who are about to die in car crashes see this old man appear in their car windows, no matter how fast they are going....
He thinks nothing about it, drinks some coffee, and gets back on the road.
Soon the snow begins to fall very thick - the wipers are almost overcome, and he can barely see past the front of his machine.
All of a sudden he gets a real creepy feeling, and a shadow falls on the drivers side window - outside the window is a very old man looking in at him! He looks at the speedometer and see's that he's going 45 kilometers per hour...
How can this old man be moving with the car? It's impossible! But he looks again, and the old man is still there. Now the old man looks like he is saying something, but he can't hear it over the engine. Honestly? He really doesn't want to!
So now he presses down the accellerator and even though he can't see anything ahead goes faster until he is over 90 KPH. The shadow comes to the window AGAIN!
It is the old man! It is STILL THERE!!!
So the man slams down the accellerator and the engine is screaming now!
120, 160, 185 KPH!!!!
Suddenly there is a horrendous
"WANG, CLANK, KERCHUNK!!!" from the front of the car, and the engine dies... The man thinks he is dead maybe, and nervously looks at the window...
The old man is still out there looking in at him!
In the silence the old man says to him:
"I was going to tell you that your drive wheels were spinning on the ice - but I don't suppose it matters now..."