Parsing of 外国人が車を運転して起こす事故


> 新しい道路標識には、 **外国人が車を運転して起こす事故** を少なくするため、日本語だけではなくて英語も書いてあります。  
>  On the new road signs, in order to reduce the number of incidents caused by
> foreigners driving cars, rather than just Japanese, English will also be
> written.

I had a little trouble parsing the part in bold. On first reading I saw
"foreigners driving cars and !!!!" and then suddenly it stopped making sense.

In the end I decided that 外国人 must be the subject of 起こす rather than 運転しる.
Then I treated 車を運転して as a kind of "by means of" clause in the same way that
歩いて seems to work. So this clause is "Incidents that foreigners cause by means
of driving cars".

Is this the correct way to analyse this grammar? Is there an alternative way
that might enlighten me further?




外国人 is the subject of 運転する and 事故を起こす. Essentially, "Foreigners are driving
and causing accidents". In context, I would translate it as "accidents caused
by foreign drivers" (technically, "foreigners driving cars").

For the entire sentence, I'd translate it as

> The new highway signs will be written in not just Japanese, but also English
> in order to minimize accidents caused by foreign drivers.

I've taken a number of liberties here. The biggest liberty is that I've
translated 書いてあります as though it were a passive to make the English sound more
natural, and I've treated 道路標識 as if it were the subject. To be more faithful
to the Japanese grammar will just result in clunky English (or perhaps shows
my weakness as a translator)




外国人 is the subject of 運転する and 事故を起こす. Essentially, "Foreigners are driving
and causing accidents". In context, I would translate it as "accidents caused
by foreign drivers" (technically, "foreigners driving cars").

For the entire sentence, I'd translate it as

> The new highway signs will be written in not just Japanese, but also English
> in order to minimize accidents caused by foreign drivers.

I've taken a number of liberties here. The biggest liberty is that I've
translated 書いてあります as though it were a passive to make the English sound more
natural, and I've treated 道路標識 as if it were the subject. To be more faithful
to the Japanese grammar will just result in clunky English (or perhaps shows
my weakness as a translator)

