I only mention it as a consideration-you may be able to find a suitable landing area straight ahead but if you took an option to, say the left, with a croswind from the right your groundspeed would be higher and hence your 'collision with any scenary speed' would be higher too.
If you think about the aim of the exercise it is TO SAVE LIFE. You are not interested in the aircraft, only its occupants, so you need to chose an area (and manoevre) to complete that will allow just that. So many students seem to think that there will be a 1000 metre strip waiting for then when they lower the nose, all you need is the best area to get the aircraft onto and apply the brakes, you are very likely to have an over run- so that needs to be a consideration too. The Hawthorn hedge on the short field may be a better option than the brick wall on the longer field.
I would add- I would alway try and go for the into wind area --landing downwind puts your touchdown speed up and thus impact speed it also increases the risk of overun and a more serious impact.
As someone once said, aim for the field with the cheapest, sofest overun and go there at minimum speed!