US race car driver and television personality Jessi Combs has been killed in a crash while attempting to set a new land speed record.

Axar.az reports citing BBC.

Combs' family confirmed that she had died in a crash in a jet-powered car in south-east Oregon, but further details were not immediately released.

The family remembered her "bright smile, positivity, and tenacious pursuit...of her dreams".

Combs, 36, had been dubbed the "fastest woman on four wheels".

"Jessi's most notable dream was to become the fastest woman on Earth, a dream she had been chasing since 2012... one of the rare dreamers with the bravery to turn those possibilities into reality, and she left this Earth driving faster than any other woman in history," her family said in a statement.