PARIS — The father of a teenager killed in a single-car crash in 2012 has filed a civil suit against the driver and three others.

The suit was filed Monday in Oxford County Superior Court by Jerrold Mason, the father of 16-year-old Rebecca Mason of West Paris, who died in the Jan. 7, 2012, crash that also killed Logan Dam, 19, also from West Paris.

Police blame the accident on alcohol use, as well as texting while driving, based on statements from the driver, Kristina Lowe, 19, of Oxford, and others. Lowe’s attorney denies she was drunk or texting.

According to police, Lowe and her friends were returning to an underage drinking party in West Paris when the crash occurred around midnight Jan. 6 on Route 219 in West Paris.

The defendants are Lowe, passenger Jacob S. Skaff, 22 at the time of the crash, Donovan G. Dow and Jesiah E. Sande. The suit accuses Skaff and Dow of providing alcohol to Lowe, knowing she was under 21, and Sande of allowing Lowe to drink at his rented home at 12 Yeaton Lane.

The civil suit alleges that “negligence and recklessness” on the part of the four accused resulted in wrongful death and conscious pain and suffering for Mason. The lawsuit says Mason experienced “a period of conscious pain and suffering” before she died.

Lowe faces two counts of manslaughter, two counts of aggravated criminal operating under the influence and one count of leaving the scene.

Skaff, Dow and Sande have not been charged criminally.

In December, a judge agreed to suppress testimony Lowe made after the crash before she underwent surgery. In his decision, he found the evidence inadmissible because Lowe hadn’t been read her Miranda rights before speaking with a Maine State Police trooper.

Lowe’s attorney, James Howaniec, has alleged that Lowe wasn’t drunk or texting at the time of the crash but hit a patch of ice while driving at a speed below the threshold for criminal speeding. Criminal speed in Maine is 30 mph or more above the limit. Police have said Lowe was driving 75 mph in a 50-mph zone when she crashed.

Assistant District Attorney Joseph O’Connor appealed the judge’s decision to suppress evidience, arguing that Lowe’s testimony is admissible.

Howaniec filed a cross-appeal to ensure his original arguments in his motion to suppress evidence are preserved.

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