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Dead in the job - US extreme athlete Jessi Combs died

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Dead in the job - US extreme athlete Jessi Combs died
Jessi Combs - Facebook

Speed ​​was your life! The US extreme athlete Jessi Combs has many years More than just looking for the thrill. Her goal was to break records that had to do with speed in particular. For example, this ensured that she became the “fastest woman on four wheels”. But now Jessi Combs is dead. The 39-year-old died in training for a new record attempt. You had an accident with your vehicle, a rocket car, on Tuesday in the Alvord Desert in the US state of Oregon. According to the police, "The cause of the accident is currently unknown and the subject of investigations". Combs had driven a vehicle with a jet engine at a speed of 2013 km / h in 640, setting a new record. Since then, her goal has been to break her own record again.

Combs was also known as a TV presenter

Dead in the job - US extreme athlete Jessi Combs died
Jessi Combs - Facebook

Already in the year 2018 she was aiming for a speed of 680 km / h and had it supposedly even geschafft (unofficial media). The record at that time could not be officially confirmed due to a mechanical problem. Her boyfriend, Terry Madden, commented on Combs' death on Instagram: "We did everything humanly possible to save them". But help apparently came too late. Combs' goal was to officially break a record set by stuntwoman Kitty O'Neil in 1976. Back then, the “fastest woman in the world” had reached an incredible 825 km / h in the Alvord desert. But the car had three wheels - since then Combs has been the fastest woman on four wheels.

Of course that had not happened yet!

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