Darren Newbold
Principal Engineer - MSc, BSc (Hons), MCIHT, MSoRSA, NH RSA Cert Comp
Darren is a Principal Engineer at TMS and is a key part of our core audit team.
Darren joined TMS in April 2004 as a Technician and worked up to the level of Graduate Engineer. In 2020, Darren became Principal Engineer, having completed an MSc in Transport Planning and Engineering in the process.
At TMS Darren is primarily involved in carrying out road safety audits. Since 2004, Darren has completed over 4,500 road safety audits and is a qualified audit team leader. His experience of road safety auditing includes audits at all stages of major and minor schemes in the UK, Ireland and Qatar. Most recently Darren has been involved in major road improvement schemes in Scotland (M8, M73 and M74) and Wales (A465 Heads of the Valleys Road Improvement Scheme).
Darren has experience in carrying out collision investigation studies and has previously undertaken these studies in Dublin, East Riding of Yorkshire, States of Jersey and in the London Boroughs of Lambeth, Lewisham and Havering. Darren is involved in other consultancy work at TMS which includes Workplace Transport Risk Assessments, Safety/Risk Assessments, and occasional bespoke projects such as carrying out a Safety Review of the Football Association’s St George’s Park site.