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Driver charged after school bus runs off the road

Police have charged the driver of a bus carrying more than 40 schoolchildren that ran off the road. (Melanie Foster/AAP PHOTOS)

A bus carrying more than 40 Victorian school children and staff has run off the road north of Adelaide.

Police said no one was injured in the incident on the Augusta Highway on Friday morning which left the bus, which was towing a trailer, bogged in a paddock north of Port Wakefield.

The bus was carrying 42 children and five school staff.

The 53-year-old driver was charged with driving without due care and driving a heavy vehicle while fatigued.

He was bailed to appear in Kadina Magistrates Court on August 21.

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