GMAT Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: The amount of car accidents caused by faulty brakes, like accidents

hotshot02 , you may be right. We can certainly have an implied modifier, and in this case, I read "the number" to mean "the number of accidents." The sentence is long and clunky enough as it is without adding one more piece! However, without the modifier, it really does look like "the number" is what is caused by faulty wiring. I'm guessing the GMAT wouldn't allow this usage. They will certainly use a general pronoun ("Accidents caused by X, likethose caused