METHOD OF SHARING TRAFFIC ACCIDENT INFORMATION AND MOBILE TERMINAL FOR THE SAME

A mobile terminal (100) including a wireless communication unit (110) configured to communicate with at least one other terminal through a server; a position location module (115) configured to detect a current location of the mobile terminal (100); a touchscreen (151); and a controller (180) configured to enter a driving mode and display a navigation screen including a route guide map on the touchscreen (151), receive an traffic report through the server from the at least one other terminal, said traffic report including a location of an accident on the route guide map, and display a location indicator indicating the location of the accident on the route guide map based on the received traffic. Further, the location indicator is displayed with a display characteristic representing a reliability of the traffic report received from the at least one other terminal.