By Barbara A. Preston for The Montgomery News l March 29, 2026 9 am.
A 32-year-old Harley Davidson motorcycle rider died from his injuries on March 24, days after colliding with a pickup truck on East Mountain Road in Montgomery Township on March 20.
Emergency crews in Montgomery Township had responded to the crash on East Mountain Road and set up a medevac landing zone on Lubas Field off Route 601, Montgomery police said. The motorcycle rider was not conscious and not breathing at the time, according to the Somerset County dispatch audio.
The obituary for Ryan J. Amaral is posted online. He had lived in Bridgewater, was a Rowan University graduate, and owned Renatus Energy, a solar energy development company.
Ryan Amaral was the father of a 22-month-old toddler (Valentina) a three-week-old newborn (Matteo), and the husband of Diana.
Amaral was riding west on East Mountain Road at 2:23 pm on March 20 when an eastbound Toyota Tacoma pickup truck collided with his motorcycle, Montgomery police said.
Amaral was flown to Robert Wood Johnson trauma center in New Brunswick with serious injuries. Amaral died Tuesday, according to State Police fatal crash data.
The 57-year-old Newark man driving the pickup truck was not injured.
Montgomery police determined that Fernando L. Alves, 57, of Newark was operating a 2017 Toyota Tacoma east on East Mountain Road when he collided with Amaral, 32, who was operating a 1998 Harley Davidson 1200 Motorcycle west on East Mountain Road.
An investigation, led by the Montgomery Police Traffic Bureau with assistance from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office Collision Analysis Reconstruction Team, is ongoing.
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Anyone with information is asked to call Montgomery police officer Chris Parlow at 908.359.3222.
Amaral is survived by his wife, two children, parents, sister, grandparents and other relatives.
The family requests that memorial donations, in leiu of flowers, be made to their GoFundMe, to support Ryan’s wife and their young children as they navigate this unimaginable loss.
