The invention discloses a vehicle-mounted millimeter wave detection and communication integrated sensor applied to a smart traffic system. The sensor comprises a millimeter wave source, a power amplifier, a millimeter wave emission antenna, a millimeter wave receiving antenna, a low-noise amplifier, a frequency mixer, a switch, a detection signal processing circuit, a communication signal processing circuit, a modulator, a base band and a central control mechanism. According to the invention, the sensor has detection and communication functions, shares such devices as the millimeter wave source, the power amplifier, the millimeter wave emission antenna, the millimeter wave receiving antenna, the low-nose amplifier, the frequency mixer and the like, is simple and compact in structure and low in cost, and is applied to vehicle crash-proof detection and wireless interconnection between vehicles and between vehicles and roads in a modern smart traffic system. The product consistency is high, and the sensor is more suitable for large-scale production.