Ahhh. Good point. I knew Springwood was supposed to be in Ohio, but I never really knew where Crystal Lake was supposed to be.
But as someone who used to live in Toledo, Ohio, New Jersey is not a short drive away, obviously.

Michaels the only person I know that can drive with a mask and never get pulled over by the cops

michael is one hell of a driver.
I hated Jaws, it had too much shark, and dont get me started about King Kong, waaay too much gorilla

The writers said Michael Myers drove off camera Jason from Ohio to Jersey. Myers also DIDNOT want to get in the middle of the Freddy vs Jason feud so he stayed out of it.

Both Jason and Freddy walked all the way to Vancouver, Canada. The entire Friday the 13th universe takes place in NJ, but as the sequels continue, the lake gets smaller and smaller until it looks like a puddle with mud, until Jason Takes Manhattan, in which Crystal Lake suddenly has an inlet into the Atlantic Ocean and New York harbor. Any future productions should go back to New Jersey, as the tax breaks in America are now equal to Canada.

In Friday the 13th Part 6 it's said that it takes place in New Jersey.
Green Goblin is great!

I think the continuity changes a little bit.. In this movie Springwood doesn't seem far from Crystal Lake I mean they drove Jason from Springwood to Crystal like in like NO TIME. Possible according to the continuity of THIS movie, perhaps Crystal Lake is also in Ohio.

He caught a ride with me, he promised he wouldnt kill me and would u believe he actually kept his word.

This was addressed in a recent article. Due to the time constraints they couldn't very well show both trips in real time. The original movie had a lot of scenes cut too. The movie would've been 2 hours long with them.

He caught a ride with a pedophile who repeatedly molested him.

He hitchhiked
Jokes aside, that is a good point. Continuity errors like that bother me as well.

You forget that Jason has Teleportation powers akin to Nightcrawler

a valid point however my thought is this, in Jason goes to Hell you see Jason swallowed into the Earth, with Freddy's glove grabbing the hockey mask. Now if we consider that Hell is an abstract then when Freddy caused Jason to revive he would arguably have him rise anywhere. It is a stretch and I am not saying it is correct, but it is the only idea that makes the most sense as there were no other murders before Jason was on Elm St.
"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." ~ Sherlock Holmes