 The scene where a Klown rams a car off the road and kills the driver  was originally intended to be an opening prologue to the film, and  the driver was to be the character Joe Lombardo. For this prologue  there was also a scene shot where Joe and his date are kissing on a  deserted dark road and after his date rejects him, he angrily drives  off alone only to meet his demise with the Klown. However when it  was decided to have an opening credit sequence be seen first, the  kissing rejection scene ended up on the cutting room floor, and the  car crash scene was placed at a later point in the film with the  driver not being Joe Lombardo. He ended up being the name of a dead  person that Mike and Debbie discover wrapped up in a cotton candy  cocoon in the final version.