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Article snippet: SAN FRANCISCO — The mother of Travis Kalanick, the chief executive of Uber, was killed and his father was seriously injured in a boating accident on Friday near Fresno, Calif., the company said on Saturday. Bonnie Kalanick, 71, was a veteran of the newspaper industry who had long had a close relationship with her son Travis, whom she raised with her husband, Donald, in the suburbs of Los Angeles. Donald Kalanick was rushed to a nearby hospital and listed in serious condition, the company said. By midafternoon Saturday, an Uber spokesman said his condition had been stabilized. “Last night, Travis and his family suffered an unspeakable tragedy,” the spokesman, Matt Kallman, said in a statement. “Our thoughts and prayers are with Travis and his family in this heartbreaking time.” Travis Kalanick did not issue his own statement. The Fresno County Sheriff’s coroner’s office said in a statement on Friday that it received a call shortly before 5 p.m. reporting a boating accident at Pine Flat Lake. Deputies with the sheriff’s office responded to the scene and found a man and a woman on the shore. He had moderate injuries; she was dead, the statement said, without identifying the victims other than to say they were a local married couple. An initial report indicated that the boat had struck a rock and later sank, the statement added. Bonnie and Donald Kalanick played an immense role in the development and rearing of their son Travis, friends and colleagues have said. The ... Link to the full article to read more