'Miracle kid' impaled on stick in quad bike crash saved by mobile phone network quirk

By Mark White
Updated March 12 2016 - 5:34pm, first published 4:55pm
Solomon Lee with his parents, Terry "Otto" and Cilla.  Photo: Shane Chalker
Solomon Lee with his parents, Terry "Otto" and Cilla. Photo: Shane Chalker

A freak accident during a post-school fishing trip left 16-year-old Solomon Lee impaled on a jagged tree branch – without mobile phone coverage.

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