The invention relates to a dangerous-overtaking early-warning prompting method. The dangerous-overtaking early-warning prompting method comprises the steps that (1) the states of vehicles in front of a vehicle and behind the vehicle are detected, and the state of the vehicle is judged; (2) when the vehicle is in a vehicle following stage, whether a left lane and the position in front of a lathe where the vehicle is located are safe or not is judged, if the lanes are safe, the prompt that safe overtaking can be carried out is given to a driver of the vehicle, and if the lanes are dangerous, the prompt that overtaking cannot be carried out is given to the driver of the vehicle; (3) when the vehicle is in an overtaking state, whether the side direction, the front portion and the rear portion of the vehicle are safe or not is judged, if the positions are safe, the prompt that safe driving can be carried out is given to the driver, and if the positions are dangerous, an alarm is given out; (4) when the vehicle is in a stage that the vehicle will return, whether the lathe where the vehicle is originally located is safe or not is judged, if the lathe is safe, the prompt that safe return can be carried out is given to the driver, and if the lathe is dangerous, the prompt that return cannot be carried out is given to the driver. The invention further discloses a dangerous-overtaking early-warning prompting system. According to the dangerous-overtaking early-warning prompting method and system, real-time detection and prediction can be carried out on the motion state of the vehicle and the motion states of the surrounding vehicles, the alarm can be given to the driver under the condition that dangers and potential dangers exist, traffic accidents are effectively prevented from happening, and the driver can be prompted whether safe overtaking or safe return to the original lathe can be carried out or not under the condition that the potential dangers do not exist.