The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for a missing boater, but other state and parish agencies were still searching Tuesday after a sailboat carrying a man and a woman crashed into the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway early Sunday morning.
When the boat hit the bridge around 3 a.m. Sunday morning, the man fell into the water, said Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries spokesperson Taylor Brazan, attributing the information to the woman onboard.
The woman immediately called 911, and the U.S. Coast Guard was able to rescue her. The man was not wearing a life vest, Brazan said…