MARGATE, Fla. — A Coral Springs man already facing charges in a domestic violence case is back behind bars for the second time this month after Margate police arrested him in connection with an unrelated fatal crash that occurred earlier this year, which they say was caused by “reckless” speeding.
Jail records show Daniel Edward Niemiec, who turns 21 on Sunday, was arrested Monday by the Margate Police Department on one count of vehicular homicide and four traffic-related charges involving damage to a person or property.
According to his arrest report, the crash occurred Feb. 2 in the 4900 block of West Atlantic Boulevard in Margate.
Investigators said Niemiec was driving a 2025 Lexus NX350H eastbound on Atlantic Boulevard when a Kia began making a left turn.
They said the Lexus struck the passenger-side doors of the Kia before the vehicles collided a second time, with the driver’s side of the Lexus hitting the Kia’s passenger-side rear quarter panel.
Police said the second impact caused the Kia to spin multiple times before coming to a rest on a nearby median. They said Niemiec’s Lexus then crashed into an electrical light pole.
According to investigators, the male passenger in the Kia, whose name and age were redacted from the arrest report, had to be extricated by the Margate Fire Department and was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The Kia’s driver was also hospitalized with injuries to her stomach and legs, police said.
“Prior to the crash, multiple witnesses described the Lexus driving erratically at a high rate of speed and weaving in and out of traffic,” investigators wrote in the report.
Police said investigators determined Niemiec was traveling about 90 mph with a 22% accelerator input just before impact in a 45- mph zone.
After reviewing surveillance video, investigators concluded Niemiec was “operating the Lexus in a reckless manner,” resulting in the passenger’s death and injuries to the Kia’s driver, the report stated.
The arrest marks Niemiec’s second this month.
Coral Springs police arrested him July 2 after accusing him of choking his ex-girlfriend and dumping a backpack filled with feces, urine, hot sauce, soda, ketchup and other fluids at her home as “payback” over suspicions she had been unfaithful.
Investigators alleged Niemiec admitted to filling the backpack with the substances because it would be “payback for her cheating.”
In that case, Niemiec is facing two counts of domestic battery and one count of domestic battery by strangulation, according to jail records.
As of Tuesday morning, he was being held at the Broward County Main Jail on a $100,000 bond. A judge also ordered him to wear a GPS monitor.
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