A communication method and a communications apparatus to transmit data of V2X services on appropriate frequency bands, where the method includes: A transmit end determining a layer-2 address pair of a first V2X service based on a frequency band of the first V2X service, where the layer-2 address pair of the first V2X service includes a source layer-2 address of the first V2X service and a destination layer-2 address of the first V2X service, and where the layer-2 address pair of the first V2X service corresponds to the frequency band of the first V2X service; and the transmit end sending data of the first V2X service to a receive end on the frequency band of the first V2X service based on the layer-2 address pair of the first V2X service.