Hi Wodmay,
A temperature sensor may have caused the vehicle to overheat or not open the thermostat when it should have but the only thing that causes condition you describe is the continuous driving after the temperature gauge goes high. When the check engine light came on and the temperature gauge went high, you should have pulled over immediately and had it towed to get repaired. This would have prevented all that happened after that. Also, you don't want to get the coolant that is coming out of the engine and put it back in. Coolant needs to be clean and just coolant and water. When it leaks out and drips off the under-body of the vehicle or engine, it picks up dirt and then will contaminate your cooling system.
I would suggest at this point, performing a compression check on the engine to ensure you have not warped the head or done further damage to the engine. Next flush the entire cooling system and then replace any component that is leaking (if any). Lastly, address your code for the temp sensor and possibly the thermostat.
If you are going to perform this work, then I would not drive the vehicle until it is complete. If you are not going to perform it yourself, then I would have the vehicle towed to the shop that will perform the work.
Let me know if you have any other questions and we can go from there.
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Sunday, April 28th, 2019 AT 1:36 PM