Imagine that you are an operations manager of a large car and truck business spread out throughout the city of Atlanta, Georgia, and that the business focuses on collision repair. Because of a considerable increase in accidents in and around Atlanta, your six repair shop facilities can't keep up with demand. Unfortunately, the extra work goes to the competition.

You instruct your data analyst to predict the future of the number of potential car and truck accidents in Atlanta over the next twelve months. What accident information is the data analyst going to collect and analyze for increasing accident trends? How is the data analyst going to do it?