The daughter of a New Jersey rabbi plunged to her death from a roller coaster in Indiana. Tamar Fellner, 32, was a roller coaster enthusiast who fell off the Raven roller coaster this weekend at the Holiday World & Splashin’ Safari amusement park in Santa Claus, Ind., the New York Daily News said. Fellner’s fianc watched in horror as the woman plunged 80 feet from the roller coaster, which typically accelerates to 60 miles per hour.
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