Police: Man raised his head to watch oncoming train before it ran over him Friday in Madison

Metro Nashville Police say a 43-year-old man appears to have committed suicide Friday morning as he was struck and killed by a train near the Nesbitt Lane Crossing in Madison at approximately 1:15 a.m. Detectives interviewed the train crew and reviewed footage from the train’s forward-facing camera. The footage shows the man lying on the tracks alone, and he is seen raising his head to watch the oncoming train before laying back down on the tracks as the train approaches him. Police say his body did not have any other obvious injuries other than those consistent with having been run over by a train.

Man passed out behind wheel on train tracks, blows a .212 BAC: Andrew Nutter

Andrew Thomas Nutter was arrested just before 3 AM on Friday morning, as police arrived to him being found in his vehicle attached to a tow truck that was pulling him off the train tracks near Douglas & McFerrin. Nutter was passed out drunk behind the wheel during the entire process and had no idea he was being towed off active train tracks. According to police reports, MNPD officers were dispatched to Douglas & McFerrin after a passerby called in stating someone was passed out in a red Toyota Corolla…