Disclosed are a vehicle warning method and apparatus. The method includes: acquiring real-time information of a vehicle, and determining that an anomaly happens to the vehicle; and sending anomaly information of the vehicle to a nearby terminal by means of short-range wireless communication. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the short-range wireless communication is adopted, which is convenient and fast, has low costs, is easy to be popularized, and does not depend on 3G/4G or GPS.